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FOI request (FOIR-719431688)
Crematorium cost breakdown
Requested Mon 02 June 2025
Responded Wed 25 June 2025Please may you provide me with the following information for your crematoria under the Freedom Of Information Act 2000. If you operate more than one crematoria please provide figures for each crematoria or the average:
1. The number of cremations processed annually from 2015-24.
2. The number of cremators in the crematorium from 2015-24.
3. The total annual energy costs for the crematorium from 2015-24.
4. The total annual staff costs for the crematorium from 2015-24.
5. The total annual maintenance costs for the crematorium from 2015-24.
6. Any recent capital investments, for example, expansion of a new cremator, and the corresponding total costs here.
7. The average price for a direct cremation charged to 3rd party funeral directors and also to larger corporations by the crematorium.
8. A list of 3rd party funeral directors and direct cremation specialists who use your crematorium.
Response
Please note: Hastings Borough Council only holds data relating to costs from 2018.
1. The number of cremations processed annually from 2015-24.
2015 - 1468
2016 - 1447
2017 - 1479
2018 - 1516
2019 - 1420
2020 - 1561
2021 - 1606
2022 - 1433
2023 - 1427
2024 - 1244
2. The number of cremators in the crematorium from 2015-24.
3. The total annual energy costs for the crematorium from 2015-24.
2018-19 - £39,810.54
2019-20 - £42,108.60
2020-21 - £43,017.56
2021-22 - £58,226.63
2022-23 - £138,816.23
2023-24 - £149,513.33
2024-25 - £106,553.93
4. The total annual staff costs for the crematorium from 2015-24.
2018-19 - £227,103.53
2019-20 - £239,050.06
2020-21 - £229,132.15
2021-22 - £224,034.17
2022-23 - £252,911.17
2023-24 - £273,967.99
2024-25 - £286,515.46
5. The total annual maintenance costs for the crematorium from 2015-24.
2018-19 - £30,371.92
2019-20 - £36,102.28
2020-21 - £108,791.84
2021-22 - £51,374.93
2022-23 - £50,441.27
2023-24 - £192,604.29
2024-25 - £98,052.66
6. Any recent capital investments, for example, expansion of a new cremator, and the corresponding total costs here.
Nil
7. The average price for a direct cremation charged to 3rd party funeral directors and also to larger corporations by the crematorium.
Current fee is £415.00 for both, we do not discriminate.
8. A list of 3rd party funeral directors and direct cremation specialists who use your crematorium.
Please see the attached.
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