List of public health funerals

Freedom of Information requests

Due to the number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests we receive regarding public health funerals, we publish information about the funerals we organise on our website.

Entries on the list are removed after seven years.

By publishing this data, we fulfil our obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This means that we can refuse any such FOI requests and instead refer people to this webpage.

Publishing this information on our website also means that all organisations who work to establish next to kin, will all have access to the information at once.

We do not provide additional information about the deceased listed, because we consider that Section 31(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 applies:

We consider that the release of full addresses - and or value of estates of the deceased - may provide an opportunity for a crime to be committed.

The property of the deceased might be empty and may still contain their personal files and belongings.

Therefore there is a risk of theft and fraud (including identity theft), illicit occupation, anti-social behaviour, and possible danger to living individuals from the disclosure of this information.  We do not believe it to be in the public interest to disclose information relating to empty properties, before a full and thorough securing of the assets of the estate - as carried out by the Government Legal Department (GLD).

Public health funerals