Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 68854

Suicide: Children

Tabled: 17 July 2025
Answered: 23 July 2025

Question

Rebecca Paul

ConservativeReigate

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing inquests into cases of child death by suicide to sit in private.

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones
The Government is committed to putting the bereaved at the heart of the inquest process, and we are particularly conscious of the importance of this for those who have suffered the unimaginable distress of losing a child through suicide.However, in line w...

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