Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to reduce the time take to process postmortems for children who have died in Northern Ireland.

It is deeply distressing that grieving families are facing delays to postmortems. Post mortems in Northern Ireland are a devolved matter and the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Executive, and I encourage the Honourable Member to raise his question with the Minister for Health in the Northern Ireland Executive.