| Heading: |
Burial: Minority Groups |
| Question ID: |
1760272 |
| UIN: |
27585 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5068 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Shivani Raja
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Shivani Raja
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that the bodies of deceased people from minority religious communities whose faith practices require burial within a specific timeframe are released promptly to their families. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4849 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Davies-Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexDaviesJones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexDaviesJones
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| Answer text: |
Since 9 September 2024, all deaths in any health setting that are not investigated by a coroner will be reviewed by NHS medical examiners. NHS England has published the National Medical Examiner’s guidance which stipulates that arrangements at each medica... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |