Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many funerals were conducted by each unitary and district council in England under section 46 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 in 2016; and what the cost to each local authority was for conducting such funerals.
The Ministry of Justice has not led on operational policy relating to burial and cremation and, therefore, we have not collected information on this issue to date.