FOI request (FOIR-331475588)

Paupers Funerals

Requested Tue 04 May 2021
Responded Thu 10 June 2021

1. Please can you provide figures for each individual financial year from 2010/11 to 2020/21 on the number of Public Health Funerals (aka paupers funerals) carried out by the local authority under the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984 or as many years of data as you have available?

2. Please could you provide for each individual financial year from 2010/11 to 2020/21 the average cost of providing a Public Health Funeral (aka paupers funeral) carried out by the local authority under the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984 or as many years of data as you have available?

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Response

Q1. This information is available on our website via the following link:

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

Q2 - Average cost per funeral (total spend for that financial year divided by number of funerals):

2011-12 £1,299.02

2012-13 £1,328.95

2013-14 £1,466.39

2014-15 £1,206.64

2015-16 £1,440.67

2016-17 £1,203.86

2017-18 £1,164.97

2018-19 £1,102.49

2019-20 £1,461.66

2020-21 £1,877.08