Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending registration of deaths by telephone following the expiration of the Coronavirus Act 2020.

Regulations have been introduced which will allow information to be collected by telephone before attendance at a register office to formally register a death.

The General Register Office for England and Wales is exploring options to bring forward amendments to primary legislation to allow for registration by telephone to be completed in the future.