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Valuation Office
Mrs. Lait:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 27 June 2007, Official Report, column 817W, on the Valuation Office, which consultants have been commissioned to assist with the automated valuation model since September 2005. [152420]
John Healey:
No consultants have been commissioned since September 2005. Some consultancy advice is still provided by the firm Cole Layer Trumble (CLT). This is part of an ongoing contractual arrangement between Capgemini, the agency’s IT providers, and CLT.
Justice
Coroners
Jenny Willott:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which case in each coroner’s district has been waiting the longest time for the opening of an inquest; and if he will make a statement. [152138]
Bridget Prentice:
An inquest is opened to take identification evidence and to enable release of the body to the family and they are generally opened within a few days of the death. There will, however, be a longer
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interval between the death and the opening where there is the possibility of a homicide offence. In these circumstances the inquest will only be opened when the police are satisfied that the body will not be needed for the purposes of an investigation. No statistics are kept on the length of time between a death and the opening of an inquest. The following table however, shows the oldest opened case in each coroner’s jurisdictions as 31 December 2006 based on information supplied by coroners.
| Date of oldest outstanding inquest case, as at 31 December 2006. by coroner jurisdiction |
| County and district | Date of oldest case (as at 31 December 2006) |
|
England and Wales
|
1 February 1997
|
| | |
|
The Queen’s Household
|
31 August 1997
|
| | |
|
England
| |
|
North East
| |
|
Durham
| |
|
Darlington and South Durham
|
31 January 2004
|
|
North Durham
|
16 April 2004
|
|
Hartlepool
|
2 August 2006
|
| | |
|
Northumberland
| |
|
North Northumberland
|
9 August 2003
|
|
South Northumberland
|
12 September 2002
|
|
Teesside
|
10 December 2003
|
| | |
|
Tyne and Wear
| |
|
Gateshead and South Tyneside
|
2 March 2003
|
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
18 January 2003
|
|
North Tyneside
|
10 May 2006
|
|
Sunderland
|
10 December 2004
|
| | |
|
North West
| |
|
Cheshire
|
7 January 2004
|
| | |
|
Cumbria
| |
|
North East Cumbria
|
16 October 2003
|
|
South Cumbria and Furness
|
2 August 2002
|
|
Western Cumbria
|
27 August 2003
|
| | |
|
Greater Manchester
| |
|
Manchester City
|
1 April 1998
|
|
Manchester North
|
2 April 2003
|
|
Manchester South
|
25 March 2004
|
|
Manchester West
|
25 February 2003
|
| | |
|
Lancashire
| |
|
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley
|
25 April 2005
|
|
Blackpool/Fylde
|
22 July 2004
|
|
East Lancashire
|
17 September 2003
|
|
Preston and South West Lancashire
|
28 November 2003
|
| | |
|
Merseyside
| |
|
Sefton, Knowsley and St. Helens
|
15 May 2001
|
|
Liverpool
|
14 November 2002
|
|
Wirral
|
24 November 2004
|
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Yorkshire and the Humber
| |
|
East Riding and Hull
|
22 March 2005
|
|
North Lincolnshire and Grimsby
|
25 May 2003
|
|
York City
|
31 March 2005
|
| | |
|
North Yorkshire
| |
|
North Yorkshire Eastern District
|
12 October 1998
|
|
North Yorkshire Western District
|
26 September 2002
|
| | |
|
South Yorkshire
| |
|
South Yorkshire Eastern District
|
3 September 2001
|
|
South Yorkshire Western District
|
15 August 2005
|
| | |
|
West Yorkshire
| |
|
West Yorkshire Eastern District
|
16 March 2002
|
|
West Yorkshire Western District
|
10 May 1999
|
| | |
|
East Midlands
| |
|
Derbyshire
| |
|
Derby and South Derbyshire
|
1 July 2003
|
|
Scarsdale
|
16 July 2003
|
| | |
|
Leicestershire
| |
|
Leicester city and South Leicestershire
|
11 June 2003
|
|
Rutland and North Leicestershire
|
24 January 2004
|
| | |
|
Lincolnshire
| |
|
Boston and Spalding
|
15 September 2005
|
|
West Lincolnshire
|
25 May 2004
|
|
Spilsby and Louth
|
8 August 2004
|
|
Stamford
|
21 November 2002
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
1 March 2000
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
2 October 2002
|
| | |
|
West Midlands
| |
|
Herefordshire
|
11 October 2004
|
| | |
|
Shropshire
| |
|
Mid and North Shropshire
|
12 July 2003
|
|
South Shropshire
|
8 February 2002
|
| | |
|
Staffordshire
| |
|
Staffordshire South
|
29 September 2004
|
|
Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire
|
28 May 2002
|
|
Telford and Wrekin
|
3 March 2003
|
|
Warwickshire
|
18 October 2002
|
| | |
|
West Midlands (metropolitan area)
| |
|
Birmingham and Solihull
|
1 February 1997
|
|
Black Country
|
23 July 2004
|
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Coventry
|
15 July 2005
|
|
Wolverhampton
|
1 June 1998
|
|
Worcestershire
|
16 July 2002
|
| | |
|
East of England
| |
|
Bedfordshire and Luton
|
8 March 2005
|
| | |
|
Cambridgeshire
| |
|
North and East Cambridgeshire
|
27 October 2005
|
|
South and West Cambridgeshire
|
10 February 2006
|
|
Essex and Thurrock
|
8 January 2002
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
29 July 1997
|
| | |
|
Norfolk
| |
|
Great Yarmouth
|
14 February 2006
|
|
Norwich and Central Norfolk
|
24 January 2005
|
|
King's Lynn
|
29 June 2006
|
|
Peterborough
|
9 February 2005
|
|
Southend-On-Sea
|
15 January 2003
|
|
Suffolk
|
24 April 2003
|
| | |
|
London
| |
|
City of London
|
12 March 2003
|
|
East London
|
1 November 2002
|
|
Inner North London
|
24 October 2004
|
|
Inner South London
|
21 July 2001
|
|
Inner West London
|
30 April 2004
|
|
North London
|
4 August 2004
|
|
South London
|
6 March 2001
|
|
West London
|
16 September 2002(1)
|
| | |
|
South East
| |
|
Berkshire(2)
|
17 February 2003
|
|
Brighton and Hove
|
6 July 2006
|
|
Buckinghamshire
|
5 September 2005
|
|
East Sussex
|
3 February 2004
|
| | |
|
Hampshire
| |
|
Central Hampshire
|
5 August 2003
|
|
North East Hampshire
|
26 June 2006
|
|
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire
|
10 September 2001
|
|
Southampton and New Forest
|
11 October 2002
|
|
Isle of Wight
|
3 November 2004
|
| | |
|
Kent
| |
|
Central and South East Kent
|
19 July 2001
|
|
Mid Kent and Medway
|
11 September 2003
|
|
North East Kent
|
31 January 2002
|
|
North West Kent
|
19 June 2001
|
|
Milton Keynes
|
1 July 2004
|
|
Oxfordshire
|
6 July 1998
|
|
Surrey
|
31 August 1997
|
|
West Sussex
|
21 September 2005
|
| | |
|
South West
| |
|
Avon(2)
|
18 April 1998
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Cornwall
|
15 April 2002
|
| | |
|
Devon
| |
|
Exeter and Greater Devon
|
10 April 2003
|
|
Plymouth and South West Devon
|
16 July 2002
|
|
Torbay and South Devon
|
26 June 2005
|
| | |
|
Dorset
| |
|
Bournemouth Poole and Eastern Dorset
|
8 May 2001
|
|
Western Dorset
|
3 August 2000
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
22 March 2004
|
|
Isles of Scilly
|
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|
| | |
|
Somerset
| |
|
Eastern Somerset
|
17 December 2004
|
|
Western Somerset
|
19 February 2004
|
|
Wiltshire and Swindon
|
22 July 2003
|
| | |
|
Wales
| |
|
Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys
|
14 October 2002
|
|
Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
|
23 April 2003
|
|
Carmarthenshire
|
25 September 2005
|
|
Central North Wales
|
20 November 2005
|
|
Ceredigion
|
9 December 2004
|
|
Gwent
|
19 October 2003
|
|
Neath and Port Talbot
|
3 April 2005
|
|
North East Wales
|
13 February 2004
|
|
North West Wales
|
1 October 1999
|
|
Pembrokeshire
|
9 August 2005
|
|
Powys
|
4 August 2004
|
|
City and County of Swansea
|
15 July 2002
|
(1) Estimated.
(2) Former county.
(3) None.
Notes:
1. The dates given may in some cases refer to the date of death, or the date the inquest was opened, rather than the date the death was reported to the coroner.
2. Estimated dates: the month was given but no further information, so mid-month was taken as a suitable estimate.
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