Coroners: Pembrokeshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inquests were launched in Pembrokeshire in each of the past ten years.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones
The requested information is set out in the table below or can be extrapolated from the data published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coroners-statistics-2023.
Year | Number of inquests opened | Number of inquests concluded within 6 months | Average length of inquest process (in weeks) | |||
| Ceredigion | Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire* | Ceredigion | Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire* | Ceredigion | Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire* |
2023 | 12 | 170 | 4 | 102 | 14 | 34 |
2022 | 22 | 210 | 6 | 106 | 35 | 30 |
2021 | 15 | 143 | 8 | 18 | 38 | 22 |
2020 | 32 | 126 | 7 | 27 | 36 | 32 |
2019 | 32 | 145 | 21 | 106 | 23 | 28 |
2018 | 41 | 147 | 18 | 127 |
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2017 | 28 | 161 | 21 | 148 |
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2016 | 33 | 221 | 36 | 221 |
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2015 | 37 | 226 | 37 | 204 |
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2014 | 19 | 109 | 9 | 70 |
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* The Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire coroner area includes both the Carmarthenshire County Council and Pembrokeshire County Council areas, and it is not possible to provide information for Pembrokeshire only.
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