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Death Certificates

Commons · Question 87443 · Tabled 3 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 10 Nov 2025

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Asked by Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken was for (a) Teesside Coroner's Officer and (b) Coroner's Offices in England and Wales to issue a final death certificate from the date of when deaths are referred to them in each of th

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Answered by Alex Davies-Jones, 10 Nov 2025

At the conclusion of an inquest or if it is suspended pending the conclusion of proceedings associated with the death the coroner certifies the cause of death for the purposes of registration. The registration of the death itself is carried out by the Reg...