Armed Forces: Death

(asked on 17th October 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) date and (b) place of every coroner's inquest that established heat as a cause of death for service personnel since 2013.


Answered by
Al Carns Portrait
Al Carns
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
This question was answered on 28th October 2024

From 1 January 2013 to 13 October 2024, three UK Armed Forces personnel tragically died from heat related causes confirmed by a Coroner and listed on the death certificates. All three deaths occurred in July 2013. The inquest for all three deaths began on 26 June 2015 at Solihull Council, Civic Suite, Council House, Solihull, West Midlands.

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