Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 61097

Perinatal Mortality: Cemeteries

Tabled: 18 June 2025

Answered: 27 June 2025

Question

Sarah Gibson

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support his Department is providing to local authorities and families wishing to install memorials or markers on sites of historic communal graves of stillborn babies.

Answer

Jim McMahon

The government understands that tracing a baby’s grave or a record of cremation can be a very difficult time for people both mentally and emotionally. It is important, therefore, that parents searching for the final resting place of their child’s remains ...

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