HC Deb 20 July 1990 vol 176 cc748-9W
Mr. Michael Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many autopsies were carried out in England and Wales for the latest year for which information is available.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The number of post mortems ordered by coroners is published in table 1 of the Home Office statistical bulletin issue 14/90 "Statistics of Deaths reported to Coroners: England and Wales 1989", a copy of which is in the Library.