Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 30855
Post-mortems: Pathology
Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 26 February 2025
Question
Alison Hume
Labour — Scarborough 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 DaltonThe Government has not made an estimate of the average time taken to carry out postmortems ordered by a coroner.