Death Certificates
Commons · Question 25565 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of provisions for registration of deaths to ensure that (a) bereaved people are able to meet the requirement to notify a death within five days of the stat
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 28 Jan 2025
Since the implementation of the death certification reforms in September 2024, the 5-day statutory time period for an informant to register a death commences when the registrar receives a completed Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD) from a Medic...