Coroners: Ceredigion
(asked on 31st January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken was for an inquest to be concluded in Ceredigion in each of the last five 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.