Suicide: Coroners’ Courts

Westminster Hall
Assisted Dying - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Hancock (Ind - West Suffolk) the suicide rate in the rest of the population. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) So, imagine the conversation about introducing assisted suicide. - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) is suicide itself in the general population. - Speech Link

Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We are grateful to the families, Peers and coroners whom we spoke to in developing these measures. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) in respect of children who died by means other than suicide. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Let me begin by reiterating my thanks to the noble Baroness, Peers, families and coroners for their help - Speech Link
4: None The amendment has the effect that the power is no longer limited to cases of suspected child suicide. - Speech Link

Deposited Papers

Mar. 04 2011

Found: police, courts, prison and probation services as well as health and social care services.

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Ministry of Justice

Aug. 15 2024

Found: The new system is now live at all magistrates’ courts and Crown Courts in England and Wales .

Select Committee

Oral Evidence Feb. 20 2024

Inquiry: The Coroner Service: follow-up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: Secretary, Coroners Courts Support Service; and Angela Geer, CEO, Coroners Courts Support Service

Select Committee

Oral Evidence Feb. 20 2024

Inquiry: The Coroner Service: follow-up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: Secretary, Coroners Courts Support Service; and Angela Geer, CEO, Coroners Courts Support Service

Select Committee

TDP0026 - Tackling drugs in prisons

Written Evidence Feb. 25 2025

Inquiry: Tackling drugs in prisons: supply, demand and treatment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: community settings, including ethnographic research in prisons, police custody and magistrates’ courts

Select Committee

TCS0010 - The Coroner Service: follow-up

Written Evidence Jan. 24 2024

Inquiry: The Coroner Service: follow-up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: The team has significant experience of inquests and appearing before the coroner’s courts nationally

Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 24 Jul 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) They are fielding call after call from people warning about somebody threatening to commit suicide. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sentamu (XB - Life peer) This means that citizens must be able to access the courts, and be heard by independent judges, under - Speech Link
3: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) courts will be additional to, or simply part of, existing court capacity. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) ’ courts, we must do much more to achieve an efficient coronial system. - Speech Link
5: Lord Burnett of Maldon (XB - Life peer) In the years before 2019, the work entering the criminal courts was in steady decline. - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
HM Prison and Probation Service

Apr. 25 2024

Found: Neither this measure, nor the outcome of self -harm incidents give an indication of attempted suicide