FOI Disclosure Log
Customer Request Details
30 April 2021
• 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?
• Please could you provide for each individual financial year from 2010/11 to 2020/21 the average of 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?
East Herts Council Response
28 May 2021
Thank you for your request for information, this has now been processed and the information that we hold is enclosed.
Please can you provide figures for each individual financial year from 2010/11 to 2020/21 on the number of Public Health 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?
A list of Public Health Funerals carried out by East Herts from 2009-2021 can be found on the website here: https://www.eastherts.gov.uk/environmental-health/public-burials
Please also provide for each individual financial year from 2010/11 to 2020/21 the average of cost of providing a Public Health 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?
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2011/2012
£2073
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2012/2013
£2308
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2013/2014
£2317
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2014/2015
£2330
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2015/2016
£2608
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2016/2017
£2359
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2017/2018
£2682
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2018/2019
£2935
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2019/20
£2080
Average costs of providing a Public Health Funeral 2020/21
£1965
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