Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 30855

Post-mortems: Pathology

Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 26 February 2025

Question

Alison Hume

LabourScarborough and Whitby

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the average time taken to carry out postmortems by pathologists ordered by a coroner in (a) the UK and (b) North Yorkshire.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Government has not made an estimate of the average time taken to carry out postmortems ordered by a coroner.