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 "title": "Deaths reported to coroners, post-mortems, inquests and conclusions, England and Wales",
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  "Accredited official statistics from the returns each coroner area makes to the Ministry of Justice for the calendar year. From 1995 the deaths reported include those that needed neither a post-mortem nor an inquest.",
  "Inquest conclusions are recorded in the year an inquest ends, which is often not the year it opened.",
  "The MoJ marks 2024 as revised.",
  "The MoJ marks 2025 as provisional."
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