Coroners: Ceredigion
(asked on 31st January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inquests were launched in Ceredigion in each of the past ten years.
The requested information is set out in the table below or can be extrapolated from the data published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coroners-statistics-2023.
Year | Number of inquests opened | Number of inquests concluded within 6 months | Average length of inquest process (in weeks) | |||
| Ceredigion | Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire* | Ceredigion | Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire* | Ceredigion | Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire* |
2023 | 12 | 170 | 4 | 102 | 14 | 34 |
2022 | 22 | 210 | 6 | 106 | 35 | 30 |
2021 | 15 | 143 | 8 | 18 | 38 | 22 |
2020 | 32 | 126 | 7 | 27 | 36 | 32 |
2019 | 32 | 145 | 21 | 106 | 23 | 28 |
2018 | 41 | 147 | 18 | 127 |
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2017 | 28 | 161 | 21 | 148 |
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2016 | 33 | 221 | 36 | 221 |
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2015 | 37 | 226 | 37 | 204 |
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2014 | 19 | 109 | 9 | 70 |
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* The Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire coroner area includes both the Carmarthenshire County Council and Pembrokeshire County Council areas, and it is not possible to provide information for Pembrokeshire only.