Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 35823

Death

Tabled: 5 March 2025
Answered: 13 March 2025

Question

Mrs Elsie Blundell

LabourHeywood and Middleton North

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has considered establishing an independent national oversight mechanism for deaths involving (a) state and (b) law enforcement bodies.

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones
The Government is committed to improving transparency and accountability in the state’s response to learning from investigations involving state-related deaths and more widely. To this end, we are actively considering how we can most effectively address c...

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