Public Health Funerals and Cremations Freedom of Information Requests

Public Health Funerals and Cremations

We receive a large number of requests, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, for details of cases where the Public Protection Team (Licensing) have undertaken arrangements for a funeral. The attached document shows the funeral costs paid by the Council and recovered costs (if any) since 2000.

The following table provides the details of these cases since 2010 and is correct as of today's date:

Public Health Funerals since 2010
Name of deceased Date of birth Date of death Marital status Date referred to Treasury Solicitor or Duchy of Lancaster or Cornwall if applicable Decision to refer still pending
Geraldine Ann Street Unknown Unknown N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Robert John Howlett 12 August 1945 30 March 2010 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Barbara Butler 11 January 1934 02 April 2010 Widow Nothing to refer N/A
Ivy Dalby 03 February 1921 17 September 2010 Widow Nothing to refer N/A
John William Ward 04 May 1930 24 November 2010 Single Nothing to refer N/A
John Peter Coles 18 May 1950 27 July 2011 Divorced Nothing to refer N/A
Colin Dawson (previously: Anthony Ackroyd) 15 January 1954 27 October 2011 Widower Nothing to refer N/A
Sofia Smith (previously: Shirley Kirkham) 27 September 1964 28 October 2011 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Martin Frank Riley 28 September 1940 03 September 2012 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Gertrude Fawcett 13 December 1926 19 August 2013 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Susan Donner 04 July 1965 18 October 2013 Single Nothing to refer N/A
Peter Herron 24 June 1945 23 December 2013 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
David Wilkinson 09 July 1941 04 April 2014 Divorced Nothing to refer N/A
Ernest Russell 03 November 1931 16 October 2014 Single Nothing to refer N/A
Diane Mahmood 10 February 1960 26 February 2015 Divorced Nothing to refer N/A
John Charles Thomas 14 March 1945 16 September 2015 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Derek Ernest Franklin 11 June 1947 29 October 2015 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Richard Frank Price 13 May 1958 09 June 2016 Divorced Nothing to refer N/A
Adam Smith Gibson 21 July 1947 17 July 2018 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Ronald Henry Bennet 10 May 1952 18 January 2019 Divorced Nothing to refer N/A
Sheila Thomlinson 12 September 1936 07 March 2019 Widow Nothing to refer N/A
Paul Leonard Ostle 19 June 1951 09 March 2019 Married Nothing to refer N/A
Jonathan Heron 12 August 1959 10 April 2019 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Angela Jean Shaw 04 August 1951 14 June 2019 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Steven Watson 17 October 1959 30 June 2019 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
John Leslie Burman 07 May 1966 24 August 2019 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Ian Alan Robinson 25 July 1958 30 September 2019 Single Unknown Family being traced
John Marshall 26 November 1951 02 November 2019 Single Unknown Family being traced
David Thompson 19 June 1941 29 November 2019 Widower Unknown Family being traced
Chester John Parker 13 March 1935 16 December 2019 Divorced Nothing to refer N/A
Geraldine Ann Street 25 September 1955 02 January 2020 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Wallace Arthur Plewes 30 December 1941 16 January 2020 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Yvonne Cox 21 January 1940 10 February 2020 Divorced Nothing to refer Family traced
Jutte Egan Unknown 10 March 2020 Married Nothing to refer N/A
Ivan Kenneth Rose 03 August 1943 02 May 2020 N/K Unknown Family being traced
Vivian Chambers 07 May 1933 16 July 2020 Divorced Family to be traced N/A
Victor Cave 28 August 1959 25 October 2020 Widower Nothing to refer Family traced
Avars Kalejs 04 March 1939 17 December 2020 Married Nothing to refer N/A
David Dixon 19 April 1947 24 March 2021 Estranged Nothing to refer N/A
Vincent Allen 22 June 1959 01 May 2021 N/K Nothing to refer Family traced
Douglas Edwin West 20 August 1926 14 July 2021 Widower Unknown Family being traced
George Arthur Wilson 21 February 1941 26 January 2022 Unknown Family to be traced N/A
Ryan Richardson 24 June 1983 09 May 2020 Single Nothing to refer N/A
Charles Djapouras Unknown 10 May 2020 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
George Storr 13 June 1948 22 May 2020 Widower Nothing to refer N/A
Michael Smith 29 April 1943 02 July 2021 N/K Nothing to refer N/A
Robert Wallace 03 May 1940 12 February 2023 Widower Nothing to refer N/A
Catherine Findlay 06 May 1939 29 March 2023 Widow Nothing to refer N/A
Edward Brown 17 June 1957 17 April 2023 Widower Nothing to refer N/A

Lea Fields Crematorium quarterly cremations

Quarterly cremations
Date from Date to Number of cremations
01 October 2023 31 December 2023 136
01 July 2023 30 September 2023 117
01 April 2023 30 June 2023 151
01 January 2023 31 March 2023 177
1 October 2022 31 December 2022 128
1 July 2022 30 September 2022 101
1 April 2022 30 June 2022 129
1 January 2022 31 March 2022 127
1 October 2021 31 December 2021 173
1 July 2021 30 September 2021 154
1 April 2021 30 June 2021 119
1 January 2021 31 March 2021 191
1 October 2020 31 December 2020 180
1 July 2020 30 September 2020 101
1 April 2020 30 June 2020 127
3 February 2020 31 March 2020 71