Post-mortems
(asked on 30th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to collect centrally data on waiting times for coronial post mortems for (a) adults, (b) children and (c) neonatal deaths.
This question was answered on 7th February 2018
The Ministry of Justice collects data on the number of post mortem examinations commissioned by coroners and this is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coroners-statistics-2016
We have no plans to collect data on waiting times for coroner post mortems.