Coroners Perinatal Mortality Alert Sample


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Alert results for: Coroners Perinatal Mortality

Information between 28th July 2021 - 23rd April 2024

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Written Answers
Perinatal Mortality: Coroners
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Monday 24th October 2022

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2022 to Question 150276 on Coroners: Perinatal Mortality, when her Department plans to publish their response to the Consultation on Coronial Investigations of Stillbirths.

Answered by Caroline Johnson

The Government’s response to the consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths has been delayed. We are working to publish the response to the consultation as soon as possible.

Coroners: Perinatal Mortality
Asked by: Claire Hanna (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South)
Monday 25th April 2022

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the independent maternity review chaired by Donna Ockenden, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending the jurisdiction of Coroners in England and Wales to give them permission to hold full inquests into stillbirths.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The Government is committed to reviewing each of the recommendations in the Ockenden Report and will respond appropriately in due course.

The Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health and Social Care have jointly consulted on proposals to provide coroners with new powers to investigate stillbirths. The consultation can be found at Consultation on Coronial Investigations of Stillbirths (justice.gov.uk). The Government’s response to the consultation has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are working to publish it as soon as possible.

Coroners: Perinatal Mortality
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Friday 14th January 2022

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the findings of the consultation on amending the Coroners Act 2009 to permit coroners to investigate stillbirths as specified in the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc) Act 2019.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Government’s response to the consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are working to publish the response as soon as possible.