Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals for a duty on coroners to record whether an individual was a (a) veteran and (b) serving member of the armed forces.

The Government’s approach is set out in its response to the current e-petition on the recording of veterans’ suicides. The response was published on 5 September 2018 and is available at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/225899.