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Coroners’ System and Death Certification

That is something that a chief coroner could assist with. There will not be one blueprint for dealing with situations when a number of different agencies are involved. As the hon. Gentleman said, two agencies might be involved in the investigation—perhaps the Health and Safety Executive and the Crown Prosecution Service, or the British Transport police and the coroner’s officers. There is no blueprint, but if something is snarled up locally, we need a chief Crown coroner to bring it together and to say, ““In this case, I suggest that we do this, this and this, in this order.”” That is something that the Director of Public Prosecutions, leading the CPS, often does. The role of chief coroner could be very important.