Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Internet

(asked on 29th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to make permanent the temporary powers within the Coronavirus Act 2020 enabling the electronic registration of deaths.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 7th July 2021

Although the current easements to death registration in the Coronavirus Act 2020 have not enabled the electronic registration of deaths, the General Register Office continues to look for opportunities to modernise the death registration process.

The current easements for death registration are currently planned to expire in line with the Coronavirus Act 2020, to retain them would require changes to the Primary Legislation which underpins the death registration process

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