Article concerning Inquest delays, specifically XV179. There is also a link from this page to the 14 outstanding cases.
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..."Mr Masters said he had met Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, to ask for more funding and was waiting to hear from him.
However, he said his only "outstanding main inquest" was the deaths of 10 personnel killed when a Hercules aircraft went down in Iraq in January 2005, which was delayed because it addressed "very sensitive issues in terms of classified information from the MoD".
Dr Fox criticised the Government's response to the situation. "We have had an increase in the number of fatalities and yet the Government has not matched this increase with the same increase in funding," he said.
"As a consequence the backlog has simply not diminished and that's an utterly unacceptable burden for the families to bear."
Lord Moonie, a former Labour defence minister, yesterday called for "additional resources to be spent on the process".
Lyn Kelly, whose son Richard Brown, died in the Hercules, said it was essential that the inquest was "thorough". She said: "It's down to the RAF and other services to get their inquiries moving so we can have these inquests held. I appreciate that there is an awful lot of information to sort through and, if there is to be a delay, I hope it is because the inquest, when it happens, is thorough."
The Coroner's Society said the situation highlighted the under-funding of coroners' courts across the country.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said military inquests were often delayed because the MoD had to hold a thorough internal investigation beforehand.
However, the Tories said the issue betrayed Labour's lack of understanding of the Armed Forces. Gerald Howarth, the shadow defence minister, said: "It is another example of the way Labour ministers simply do not understand the ethos of the Armed Forces."
He accused ministers of presiding over a system that "prolongs the grief" of bereaved Service families...."