Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken as a result of the recommendation made in the Hutton review of forensic pathology in England and Wales, submitted to the Minister of State for Crime and Prevention in March 2015, that pathologists and other clinicians, police and coroners and their officers all need to be sensitive to the difficulties surrounding communication and understanding that arise in a multi-cultural society when death occurs in order to do what is possible to manage the situation.

The Home Office has raised this recommendation with the police, Ministry of Justice and the Chief Coroner’s Office. In respect of Home Office forensic pathologists such issues are addressed in their two week Criminal Justice Course they attend prior to acceptance on the Home Office Register.