Question follow-through · 110756
Funerals
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of Local Authorities contracting funeral services where those services fall outside of a Local Authority's obligations under Section 46 of
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of Local Authorities contracting funeral services where those services fall outside of a Local Authority's obligations under Section 46 of
10 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2026
Answer published
Local authorities are independent of central government. My department has made no estimate of the number of the number of local authorities contracting funeral services outside of their obligations.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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