Speeches

Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck on 2016-01-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total annual costs to local authorities were for public health funerals in each year between 2010 and 2015.

Mr Marcus Jones

The Department for Communities and Local Government does not collect the information requested. Figures on local authority expenditure on, and income from, the provision of cemetery, cremation and mortuary services, including closed churchyards and post-mortem services within mortuaries, are collected on the Revenue Outturn form and are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2014-to-2015-individual-local-authority-data-outturn