Breakdown of all public health funerals for past three years
Request received 2 February 2026
We ideally require the following information broken down into individual records of those deceased to include:
• The full name of the deceased.
• The date of birth of the deceased.
• The last known residential address of the deceased.
• The full address and/or contact details of the location where the deceased passed away.
• The date of death.
For deceased individuals confirmed as having no known next of kin, or where enquiries are ongoing to establish next-of-kin status, please also provide:
• Whether the deceased was known to have held any assets and/or property at the time of death.
• The name, full address and contact details of the crematorium or burial site where the deceased was cremated or buried.
• The full address at which the cremation or burial took place and the associated cost of the burial or cremation.
• Details of any personal information relating to the deceased that was disclosed (including the date of disclosure) to:
o Any tracing agent(s) (including full contact details);
o The Government Legal Department and/or Treasury department(s);
o Any probate firm(s) (including full contact details);
o Any other organisation or entity (including full contact details)
• The total cost incurred for the cremation or burial of the deceased.
Responded 2 February 2026
In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act:
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
c) State why the exemption applies:
The information requested is accessible to you via other means at:
Open data: Public health funerals | Open data | East Cambridgeshire District Council
Section 21 states the following:
1) Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under Section 1 is exempt information.
2) For the purposes of subsection (1) –
a. Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
b. Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
Therefore, as the Council publish this information, the information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Act.