Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report by the UK Commission on Bereavement entitled Bereavement is everyone's business, published in October 2022, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) reviewing death registration processes and (b) extending the remit of the Tell Us Once service to include the private sector.

For Civil Registration in England & Wales, remote registration assisted both the bereaved and the registration service during the Covid pandemic with positive feedback received. To continue this, a change to primary legislation is required and the Data Protection and Digital Information (no2) Bill before Parliament seeks to enable this.

There are currently no plans to extend the Tell Us Once Service to the prive sector.