Prevention of Future Deaths reports by coroner area, England and Wales
Prevention of Future Deaths reports issued by coroners in each coroner area in England and Wales over the latest three years, with the coroner regions and England and Wales, from the Ministry of Justice's coroners statistics.
Prevention of Future Deaths reports issued, England and Wales
654
2025
Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:16 UTC- 2025
- 2024
Source: Ministry of Justice. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
95 rows
| Area | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inner North London | 43 | 41 | 25 |
| Manchester South | 41 | 59 | 42 |
| Essex | 28 | 14 | 9 |
| Birmingham and Solihull | 23 | 22 | 19 |
| West Sussex, Brighton and Hove | 23 | 21 | 12 |
| Manchester West | 18 | 5 | 2 |
| East London | 17 | 24 | 26 |
| South Wales Central | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Nottinghamshire | 15 | 22 | 13 |
| Surrey | 15 | 27 | 15 |
| West Yorkshire (Western) | 15 | 8 | 6 |
| Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton | 13 | 7 | 7 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 13 | 23 | 21 |
| Dorset | 13 | 11 | 12 |
| Suffolk | 12 | 17 | 9 |
| North London | 12 | 13 | 11 |
| Kent and Medway | 12 | – | – |
| East Riding and Hull | 12 | 13 | 7 |
| Northamptonshire | 11 | 5 | 5 |
| Cheshire | 10 | 15 | 9 |
| Cumbria | 10 | 11 | 8 |
| Worcestershire | 10 | 15 | 10 |
| South London | 10 | 3 | 2 |
| Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Norfolk | 9 | 14 | 9 |
| Inner South London | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| Berkshire | 9 | 22 | 10 |
| Devon, Plymouth and Torbay | 9 | 7 | – |
| North Wales (East and Central) | 9 | 16 | 18 |
| South Yorkshire (Eastern) | 9 | 5 | 0 |
| West Yorkshire (Eastern) | 9 | 12 | 11 |
| County Durham and Darlington | 8 | 16 | 9 |
| Liverpool and the Wirral | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Manchester North | 8 | 14 | 11 |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Inner West London | 8 | 10 | 10 |
| Milton Keynes | 8 | 6 | 12 |
| West London | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| Gwent | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Swansea and Neath Port Talbot | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Sunderland | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Derby and Derbyshire | 6 | 16 | 11 |
| Black Country | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent | 6 | 13 | 6 |
| Oxfordshire | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| Avon | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Somerset | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| North Yorkshire and York | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Teesside and Hartlepool | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| Rutland and North Leicestershire | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Gloucestershire | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire (Western) | 5 | 14 | 17 |
| Newcastle and North Tyneside | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Northumberland | 4 | 3 | – |
| Blackpool and the Fylde | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| Coventry | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Hertfordshire | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Wiltshire and Swindon | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Gateshead and South Tyneside | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Greater Lincolnshire | 3 | 1 | – |
| Bedfordshire and Luton | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| East Sussex | 3 | 9 | 3 |
| Manchester City | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Warwickshire | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| City of London | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Buckinghamshire | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Leicester City and South Leicestershire | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| Ceredigion | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| North West Wales | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Herefordshire | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Isle of Wight | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Northumberland | – | – | 2 |
| South Northumberland | – | – | 0 |
| Lincolnshire | – | – | 7 |
| Central and South East Kent | – | 3 | 3 |
| Mid Kent and Medway | – | 7 | 3 |
| North East Kent | – | 2 | 2 |
| North West Kent | – | 1 | 1 |
| Exeter and Greater Devon | – | – | 4 |
| Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon | – | – | 3 |
| North Lincolnshire and Grimsby | – | – | 1 |
| North East | 30 | 32 | 28 |
| North West | 110 | 125 | 94 |
| East Midlands | 41 | 53 | 43 |
| West Midlands | 55 | 63 | 50 |
| Eastern | 64 | 62 | 43 |
| London | 108 | 106 | 93 |
| South East | 91 | 111 | 70 |
| South West | 56 | 58 | 60 |
| Wales | 43 | 44 | 41 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 56 | 57 | 47 |
| ENGLAND and WALES | 654 | 711 | 569 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Justice
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 31 October 2026, 11:13 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/coroners-statistics-2025SHA-256 80dd800b05ea748c35432448d4f8d7642f320d6279f327d52a9d1d921be8c117 · 18,361 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ad611aa67af5c09d04797f4/Coroners_Statistics_Annual_2025_Tables.odsSHA-256 c9699ffae939a044feac5d528aeed128d6d273271998e36976992c53da6c7fa5 · 114,057 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:16 UTC Run at 31 October 2026, 11:16 UTC; 285 of 285 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Justice; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-31T11:13:13Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 285 of 285 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 285 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 285 of 285 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025 ended 304 days before retrieval (limit 560), from Coroners statistics 2025: England and Wales (statistical tables) |
| Pass | The coroner areas add up to their regions and England and Wales | in 33 of 33 cases the areas and the regions sum to the whole within 0 (33 exactly) |
| Pass | The release's CSV agrees, area by area | 231 of 231 figures agree with coroners-statistics-2025-csvs/coroners-statistics-2025-csv-inc-less-inv.csv in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ad615e30f7b53973e026902/coroners-statistics-2025-csvs.zip |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Accredited official statistics from the returns each coroner area makes to the Ministry of Justice for the calendar year. Coroner areas and their regions are the MoJ's own, by its names: Wales is one region, and the regions are not the ONS's, so no figure is placed in a council or region of the hub's.
- Coroner areas merge from time to time: Greater Lincolnshire, Devon, Plymouth and Torbay, and Northumberland each from two areas on 1 April 2024, and Kent and Medway from four on 1 July 2025. An area that did not exist in a year shows no figure for it.
- A coroner who finds that action could prevent other deaths must send a Prevention of Future Deaths report to whoever can take it. The MoJ counts the reports coroners issue, from their annual returns; the Chief Coroner publishes most of them, not all, so a count of the published reports will differ. The MoJ began collecting them in 2021.
- The MoJ has revised its figures for 2024.