Department for Work and Pensions: Coroners

(asked on 7th June 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Baroness Browning Portrait
Baroness Browning
(Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many Prevention of Death reports the Department for Work and Pensions has received from coroners in each year from 2019 to 2022 inclusive.

Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie Portrait
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 19th June 2023

I am happy to provide a breakdown by year as follows:

  • One report in 2019 (relating to a death in January of that year).
  • No reports in 2020.
  • Three reports in 2021, relating to deaths from May 2017, October 2019 and April 2020.
  • No reports in 2022.
  • For the purposes of completeness, I can add that the department has so far received no reports in 2023.
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