§ Dr. Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the syllabus of the programme of training courses organised by his Department for coroners and details of the attendees in each of the past five years. [82699]
§ Mr. George HowarthThe Home Office courses have contained lectures on the following subjects:
- judicial reviews
- pre-inquest hearings
- dealing with juries
- summing up and verdicts
- coroners and criminal law
- the Attorney-General and the coroner
- the role of the pathologist
- post mortems
- histopathology
- forensic pathology
- paediatric pathology
- toxicology
- hospital deaths
- mesothelioma and associated respiratory diseases
- industrial diseases
- disaster management
- accident reconstruction
- coroners: the Home Office role
- computerising coroner records
- Home Office statistics
- the role of the coroner's officer
- the coroner and the media
- the Mental Health Act 1983
- the Treasure Act 1996
- death registration.
Since 1995, some 220 coroners and their deputies have attended Home Office-organised courses. The figures for 1994 are no longer available.