Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many jury inquests were carried out in each of the last 10 years.

The number of jury inquests held can be found in the statistical tables accompanying the ‘Coroners Statistics 2013’ publication, which is accessible via the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coroners-statistics

Table 10 provides data from 1995 to 2013. Data for 2014 will be published on 14 May 2015 in the ‘Coroners Statistics 2014’ publication, which will be available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics