Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the extent of variations in rules and protocols surrounding second post-mortems throughout the UK; and if he will make a statement.

The MoJ has not made such an assessment. Coroners continue to rely on Home Office Circular 30/1999

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20040722015642/http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs/hoc9930.html

Coroners are independent judicial office holders and the way they carry out their judicial functions is a matter for them.