Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inquests there have been where (a) Article 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 has been engaged, (b) Article 2 of that Act was engaged in relation to gambling-related harm and (c) gambling-related harm was a relevant factor in each year since 2005.

The Ministry of Justice publishes annual data on coroners including, amongst other things, the number of inquests they have held and the types of conclusion they have recorded. These statistics, however, are not further sub-categorised and therefore we are not in a position to provide accurate information on the number of inquests where Article 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 was engaged or on whether gambling-related harm was a relevant factor.