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Recommendation 2
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Accepted
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Reducing the number of coronial areas has helped increase consistency across the Coroner Service.
Recommendation
Reducing the number of coronial areas has helped increase consistency across the Coroner Service. The Ministry of Justice should amend the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (as requested by the outgoing Chief Coroner) to make it easier to merge areas.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts the recommendation to amend the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 to facilitate mergers of coronial areas, noting this is currently in progress as part of the Judicial Review and Courts Bill.
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Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
We accept this recommendation and indeed, this is currently in progress as one of the measures in the Judicial Review and Courts Bill.
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