This website uses cookies to give you a better experience. For more information on why we use cookies, please read our cookie policy
Accept cookies
Skip to main content
Hastings Online logo
A-Z
Home | Help | Privacy | Login to My Hastings | Sign in / Register | Jobs Email alerts Hastings council Instagram Hastings council twitter feed Hastings council facebook page
  • My council
  • Freedom of Information
  • Requests and responses by date
    • FOI request (FOI-72826670)

      Public Health Funerals

      Requested Fri 13 April 2018
      Responded Mon 11 June 2018

      1) Please tell me the average cost for a public health burial funeral in the financial years of:

      2015/2016

      2016/2017

      2017/2018

      2) Please tell me the average cost for a public health cremation funeral in the financial years of:

      2015/2016

      2016/2017

      2017/2018

      3) Please tell me how many public health funerals the council has provided in the financial years of:

      2015/2016

      2016/2017

      2017/2018

      4) Please tell me the total cost of public health funerals the council spent in the financial years of:

      2015/2016

      2016/2017

      2017/2018

      5) Please tell me how many people you have denied public health funerals and on what grounds in the financial years of:

      2015/2016

      2016/2017

      2017/2018

      6) For this financial year only, please outline your policy on how many family members you allow to attend.

      7) Please tell me what you ask people seeking a public health funeral to do before agreeing to undertake it.

      8) Please outline your position on returning ashes of the deceased to family members after a public health cremation has taken place.

      9) Please detail how you make the availability of a public health funeral known to residents - is there a self-referral model or do people have to be referred to the council by a coroner?


      Response

      Q1 -

      2015/2016 - £1205

      2016/2017 - £1245

      2017/2018 - £1291

      Q2 -

      2015/2016 - £1369

      2016/2017 - £1389

      2017/2018 - £1435

      Q3 -

      2015/2016 - 17

      2016/2017 - 30

      2017/2018 - 30

      Q4 -

      2015/2016 - £24,491.40

      2016/2017 - £40,931.08

      2017/2018 - £40,105.00

      Please note - these figures do not include from the estate.

      Q5 - Hastings Borough Council (HBC) would not deny anyone, it is a legal function of the authority.

      Q6 - HBC does not impose any restrictions. Please see link below to our website:

      https://www.hastings.gov.uk/cemetery-crematorium/burial-cremation/welfare-funerals/

      Q7 - Please see link below to our website:

      https://www.hastings.gov.uk/cemetery-crematorium/burial-cremation/welfare-funerals/

      Q8 - If there are family we normally ask the person requesting us to carry out the arrangements to write a letter requesting the remains and what they are intending to do with them. This we keep with the deceased information folder, we then release them.

      Q9 -

      The information is on our website and all the local funeral directors are aware as are the housing associations and Hospice. So we have a mixture of self-referral and referral by the coroner.

      https://www.hastings.gov.uk/cemetery-crematorium/

  • Freedom of Information

    Contact

    Contact us if you have a question about democratic services.


    Comments

    The content on this page is the responsibility of our Democratic Services team.


    Can't find what you're looking for? Try our A - Z

A-Z of services

  • Services beginning with A
  • Services beginning with B
  • Services beginning with C
  • Services beginning with D
  • Services beginning with E
  • Services beginning with F
  • Services beginning with G
  • Services beginning with H
  • Services beginning with J
  • Services beginning with L
  • Services beginning with M
  • Services beginning with N
  • Services beginning with P
  • Services beginning with R
  • Services beginning with S
  • Services beginning with T
  • Services beginning with U
  • Services beginning with V
  • Services beginning with W
  • Hastings Museum and Art Gallery website
  • Visit 1066 Country website
  • Email alerts Hastings council Instagram Hastings council twitter feed Hastings council facebook page

Accessibility statement

Contact us

© 2025 Hastings Borough Council