Freedom of Information Request – Public Health/Welfare Funerals
1. The total number of public health funerals (where the deceased has no relatives or there is no
one else willing to pay) that your Trust has undertaken for the financial years between 2007 and
2010
See attachment.
2. The number of public health funerals that your Trust has undertaken by gender for the past 3
financial years
See attachment.
3. The number of public health funerals that your authority has undertaken by age for the past 3
financial years
See attachment.
4. Since April 2009, how many cases have there been where family and friends refuse to finance
or make arrangements for their relatives
funeral?
1.
5. How much have the burials/cremations cost the trust broken down by year for the last three
financial years?
2007/08 - £7,736
2008/09 - £22,354
2009/10 - £16,818
01/4/2010 to 31/7/2010 - £3,745
6. How much does your trust typically (average cost) pay for a Public Health Funeral?
Current cost - £1,010
7. What does your Trust provide at a Public Health Funeral?
Services of a funeral director, bringing the deceased to the funeral director, coffin, urn, doctor’s
fee, minister’s fee and cremation fees.
8. What relationship do you have with your local council(s) regarding funerals of this nature?
We advise local councils when such patients have died.