FOI request (FOI223032)

Public Health Funerals

Requested Mon 11 September 2017
Responded Mon 11 September 2017

• How many public health funerals you have carried out each financial year dating back to 2010/11 (if possible) and up to 2016/17?

• How much you have spent on public health funerals in the whole of each financial year (2010/11 to 2016/17)?

• And, if possible, the average cost of each funeral in 2016/17 compared to the cost of one in 2010 (or earliest you have available)?

The first two questions are the ones I am most keen to receive an answer on if possible.

Response

This information is held

Q1 - This information is available on our website via the following link https://www.hastings.gov.uk/my_council/transparency/budgets/ the scroll down to the bottom of the page under W for welfare funerals.

Q2 -

2010-11 - Information not available
2011-12 - £27,279.36
2012-13 - £33,223.67
2013-14 - £35,193.40
2014-15 - £37,405.83
2015-16 - £24,491.40
2016-17 - £40,931.08

Q3 -

2010/11 - £1200-£1300 for a cremation/burial (doctors and ministers fee causing the variance and higher costs)
2016/17 - £1300-£1450 for a cremation/burial (doctors and ministers fee causing the variance and higher costs)