Coroners: Greater London
(asked on 24th February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases have been referred to the West London Coroners Office in each of the last five years.
The Ministry of Justice collects annual statistical data on deaths reported to coroners. The table below shows the total number of deaths reported to the West London coroner service between 2011 and 2015.
Year | Total deaths (including no further action cases) |
2011 | 3,886 |
2012 | 3,813 |
2013 | 3,858 |
2014 | 3,437 |
2015 | 3,364 |
Data on the number of cases that have been waiting more than a week is not held centrally.
The Ministry of Justice has not allocated funding to the West London coroner service as coroner services are funded by local authorities.