questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions a body was released more than seven days after the coroner's office was notified in (a) Birmingham and (b) Solihull in each of the last 12 months; and whether the coroner (i) collects information on someone's religion and (ii) takes into account the timeframe for religious beliefs and practices relating to death and dying.
answerText: Information is not held centrally on the release by coroners of the bodies of the deceased whose deaths are reported to them.Coroners are judges and, as such, are independent in the decisions they make in conducting their investigations. They exercise the...
heading: Coroners: Birmingham and Solihull