Special payment funeral costs (FOI)Special payment funeral costs (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by States of Jersey and published on
29 June 2018.Request
The number of so-called paupers' funerals, where the cost is covered by the States as the family of the deceased does not have sufficient funds, that have taken place since 2016.
A breakdown of the number of paupers' funerals in each year since.
Money spent on paupers' funerals since 2016. A breakdown of the amount spent in each year since.
Response
A previous Freedom of Information (FOI) request on this subject was published in June 2016 and is accessible at the following link:
Funeral costs (FOI)
Further to this previous FOI request, this question has been broken down into:
Both questions have been answered in the table below:
2016 | 35 | £66,911.38 |
2017 | 28 | £52,778.86 |
2018 (January to May) | 30 | £42,092.43 |