United Kingdom · Question · Written question
HL HL4924
Cremation
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11 February 2025
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25 February 2025 · Answer
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25 February 2025
Summary
To ask His Majesty's Government whether funeral directors providing a direct cremation service are required to collect the body of a deceased person from a hospital mortuary within a specified time frame after the medical examiner has issued the medical c
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11 February 2025
Written question
To ask His Majesty's Government whether funeral directors providing a direct cremation service are required to collect the body of a deceased person from a hospital mortuary within a specified time frame after the medical examiner has issued the medical c
Source: Lords
25 February 2025
Answer
At present there is no mandatory time period within which all funeral directors across England and Wales should collect the body of a person who has died and take them into their care.The introduction of regulation into the funeral director sector require...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-02-11/HL4924
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1764643
- uk · wq-1764643 · source updated 25 February 2025