To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many coroners are (a) women, (b) from ethnic minorities, (c) medical practitioners or former medical practitioners, (d) solicitors or former solicitors and (e) barristers or former barristers; how many coroners there are in total; and if he will make a statement. [79802]

According to the latest available information, there are some 137 coroners, of whom seven are women, and 15 are, or have been, medical practitioners. No information is held centrally either on the number of appointments from within the ethnic minority communities or on the number of coroners who are by origin solicitors or barristers.