HC Deb 10 March 2004 vol 418 cc1573-4W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time taken is to arrange a coroner's inquiry into a death. [155684]

(i) supplying, (ii) trafficking and (iii) possession of cannabis in each of the last five years. [159220]

Caroline Flint

The available information is contained in the table.

Paul Goggins

In 2002, the average time taken to process art inquest, from the time the death was reported to the coroner, until the time the inquest was concluded, was four months. The average time taken for the coroner to issue a certificate permitting a body to be released for burial or other disposal, in cases where an inquest was subsequently held, was seven clays.