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Mairead Clarkin

Dear North Ayrshire Council,

I am undertaking a study on the numbers of Public Health/Welfare Funerals undertaken by LA's in Scotland. I would appreciate it if you would provide answers to the following FOI request.

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 LA has undertaken for the financial years 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18?

2. The number of public health funerals that your LA has
undertaken by gender for the past 3 financial years?

3. The number of public health funerals that your LA has
undertaken by age for the past 3 financial years?
Since April 2015, how many cases have there been where family and
friends refuse to finance or make arrangements for their relatives
funeral?

4. How much have the burials/cremations cost the LA broken down
by year for the last three financial years? This cost information
does not need to include administrative or staff costs, and before
any costs are claimed back by the local authority from the
deceased’s estate

5. How much does your trust typically (average cost) pay for a
Public Health Funeral?

6. What does your LA provide at a Public Health Funeral?

7. What relationship do you have with your local NHS Trust
regarding funerals of this nature?

8. Have you observed any of the following over the last three
years?

• Higher numbers or people dying without any income or assets
• Higher numbers of people dying with family or friends unable to
contribute to the costs of a funeral
• Higher numbers of people dying with family or friends unwilling
to contribute to the costs of a funeral
• Higher numbers of people dying with no friends or family

Yours faithfully,

Mairead Clarkin

North Ayrshire Council

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North Ayrshire Council

Dear Mairead Clarkin

Thank you for your email dated 14/05/18, which was received by North
Ayrshire Council on even date, requesting information about;

Public Health Funerals

North Ayrshire Council acknowledges receipt and will respond to you within
20 working days as required by the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act
2002. We will contact you if we require any further information or
clarification from you.

The information supplied in your request will only be accessed by North
Ayrshire Council staff and will be retained for the purposes of processing
your request for information and related purposes and for statistical and
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Yours sincerely
Jessica McCallum
Freedom of Information Co-ordinator

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