A question on #MedicalExaminers #DeathCertificates tabled by Melanie Onn on 12-03-2025 has been answered by Ashley Dalton.

Heading: Medical Examiners: Death Certificates
Question ID: 1783754
UIN: 37566
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-03-12
Asking Member ID: 4464
Asking Member display name: Melanie Onn
Asking Member handle: melanie_onn
Asking Member Twitter reference: @melanie_onn
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the medical examiner process on (a) bereaved relatives and (b) the time it takes for families to arrange funerals.
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Date answered: 2025-03-21
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Answering Member ID: 4981
Answering Member display name: Ashley Dalton
Answering Member handle: AshleyDalton_MP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @AshleyDalton_MP
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Answer text: The Government is monitoring the impact of the death certification reforms which came into legal effect on 9 September 2024. Early data since the introduction of the reforms indicates the median time taken to register a death appeared to have risen by one...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
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