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Burial: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what cross government support is provided to local authorities to identify the location of, and those buried in, historic unmarked mass child graves in England such as those discovered in Royton, O

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
24 Nov 2025
Answer
16 Dec 2025 · 26 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what cross government support is provided to local authorities to identify the location of, and those buried in, historic unmarked mass child graves in England such as those discovered in Royton, O

  2. 24 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government recognises the distress caused to bereaved parents by these historic practices and we commend the work that families and charities have been doing to highlight this issue and support other bereaved parents. We are working across Government ...

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