Issue Of Cremation Certificates After Death Abroad

EDM number 1405 in 2002-03, proposed by Edward O'Hara on 12/06/2003.

That this House notes that, with even increasing numbers taking foreign holidays abroad, including older people, sadly it is increasingly common for United Kingdom nationals to die abroad; notes further that the issue of cremation certificates in such cases is currently possible only from the Coroner's Department in the Home Office in London; is concerned that this is a cause of inconvenience, distress and often considerable expense to families living at a distance from London at a time when they are already suffering the shock of bereavement in difficult circumstances; questions why this system continues to exist in an age of remote access to documentation; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to take the opportunity to correct this anomaly in the forthcoming review of the coroner's system.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs.