| Heading: |
Human Remains: Crime |
| Question ID: |
1795827 |
| UIN: |
47026 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5177 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ann Davies
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Ann Davies
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a separate criminal offence of desecration of a corpse. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4849 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Davies-Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexDaviesJones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexDaviesJones
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Government understands the concerns of bereaved families who are pressing for a review of the legislative framework around the desecration of corpses. While there is no specific offence of desecrating a corpse in England and Wales, other related offen... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |