FOI Request - Public Health Funerals

Request 101003539648

1. Can you please provide me with the electronic link to the most recent version of your public health funerals list.

2. If the public health funeral list that you maintain is not up to date please provide details of public health funerals conducted up to the 31st December 2023 or up to the latest date available.

3. If you do not maintain an online list please can you provide details of the public health funerals carried out by your authority from January 2015 to the latest date available confirming the name of the deceased, date of birth and date of death and location.

4. Further please provide confirmation as to whether or not you have identified a next of kin for each person for whom you conducted a public health funeral.

Response 23-04-2024

1. The Moray Council Local Authority funeral Register is available at:- http://www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file154725.pdf 

2. The Register is up to date

3. The register dates from 2018, as the information held on the computer system previous to that has been redacted in line with the section's retention schedules.

4. Where next of kin has not been identified, cases are referred to the Ultimus Haeres Unit, as noted on the register.