Question follow-through · 13045
Death: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the inclusion of weekends and bank holidays in the 5 day legal requirement to register a death on the timeliness of death registr
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the inclusion of weekends and bank holidays in the 5 day legal requirement to register a death on the timeliness of death registr
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2026
Answer published
Monitoring has shown good appointment availability to enable the registration of deaths in England and Wales within the 5-day statutory time period. The Government’s work towards transforming the death registration process will allow the bereaved to regis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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