FOI request (FOIR-605104033)

Statistics and information about public health funerals

Requested Fri 12 April 2024
Responded Tue 23 April 2024

1. Can you please list how many public health funerals (or so called 'pauper' funerals) your council has organised, in the following years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

2. Do you carry out an attended or unattended funeral?

3. Do you return ashes to family or friends if wished, and if so, under what circumstances?

4. What evidence do you require to carry out a burial, if that is not the default funerary method?

Response

1. This information is available on our website at:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/my-council/transparency/budgets/#funerals

2. Attended.

3. Yes, if they express a wish that they would like them, we do not charge.

4. Religion, and ask family friends if there are any, otherwise we will arrange a cremation.