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Good morning,

On behalf of Hon Paul Goldsmith, I acknowledge receipt of your official information request dated 2 November 2024, where you requested:

1) Advice the minister has received from the chief coroner about these cases.
2) Figures related to the number of cases that the coroner is currently investigating about ambulance service-related deaths.
3) Figures related to the number of cases that the coroner has investigated in the past five years about ambulance service-related deaths.
4) Figures related to the number of cases that the coroner has decided to pass to other agencies, which raise concerns about ambulance service-related deaths.
5) To what extend does the coroner currently not investigate ambulance service-related deaths due to concerns about resourcing?
6) Provide any briefs, emails or meeting minutes from the past year that relate to concerns about inadequate funding of the coroner's office, preventing timely investigation of deaths notified to the coroner.

We received your request on 2 November 2024. We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 29 November 2024, being 20 working days after the day your request was received.

If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

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