A question on #PerinatalMortality #Cemeteries tabled by Sarah Gibson on 18-06-2025 has been answered by Jim McMahon.

Heading: Perinatal Mortality: Cemeteries
Question ID: 1814142
UIN: 61097
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-06-18
Asking Member ID: 5239
Asking Member display name: Sarah Gibson
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Sarah Gibson
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Question text: 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.
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Date answered: 2025-06-27
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Answering Member ID: 4569
Answering Member display name: Jim McMahon
Answering Member handle: JimfromOldham
Answering Member Twitter reference: @JimfromOldham
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Answer text: 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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Answering body ID: 7
Answering body name: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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