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Written PQ Response: Home Department | 9th March 2021
Question (s) (Mark Pawsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued to police forces in respect of mourners that breach COVID-19 social distancing regulations at funerals. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) guidance [...]
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Written PQ Response: Home Department | 19th February 2021
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support funeral (a) directors and (b) venue owners will receive in the event that mourners break (i) the 30-person limit and (ii) other covid-19 regulations. (154746) Tabled on: 19 February 2021 Answer (Kit Malthouse): It is [...]
Two DMAG members have letters published in Lincolnshire Free Press
Representatives from two DMAG members: the Funeral Furnishers Manufacturers Association and the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) have had letters published in the Lincolnshire Free Press newspaper in response to an article by our Chair Sir John Hayes on 25th January. Funeral directors are on the [...]
Written PQ Response: Department for Health and Social Care | 16th February 2021
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of categorising crematorium and cemetery staff as frontline healthcare staff for the purposes of the Covid-19 vaccine. Answer (Nadhim Zahawi): The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation [...]
Written PQ Response: Cabinet Office | 15th February 2021
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a cross-Departmental lead group to assess the issues affecting the funeral and death care sector. Answer (Penny Mordaunt): [...]