Question follow-through · 25565
Death Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of provisions for registration of deaths to ensure that (a) bereaved people are able to meet the requirement to notify a death within five days of the stat
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of provisions for registration of deaths to ensure that (a) bereaved people are able to meet the requirement to notify a death within five days of the stat
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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28 Jan 2025
Answer published
Since the implementation of the death certification reforms in September 2024, the 5-day statutory time period for an informant to register a death commences when the registrar receives a completed Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD) from a Medic...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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