Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Mike Amesbury Excerpts
Tuesday 27th June 2023

(1 year, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Damian Hinds Portrait Damian Hinds
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I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. He and I have met, along with the other MP for Reading, my right hon. Friend the Member for Reading West (Sir Alok Sharma). As he is aware, a sale is progressing, and of course there is commercial sensitivity attached to that, but I can assure the hon. Gentleman that assurances for purchase will be required by solicitors and all required due diligence will be undertaken. I will be happy to talk with him further.

Mike Amesbury Portrait Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab)
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Louise and her family are facing unnecessary and quite challenging delays in the local coroner’s service in Cheshire. This seems to be happening far too often at the moment. What more can Ministers do to speed up that process?

Mike Freer Portrait Mike Freer
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As the coroners are independent judicial office holders, we can continue to raise particular cases to find out what specific issues are holding back those cases. If the hon. Gentleman writes to me with the details of that case, I will ask the Chief Coroner to investigate.