§ Mr. Thorpeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will take steps to abolish the four guinea cost of the two certificates requisite for cremation, or to add such charge in such cases to the burial grant already paid.
§ Mr. George ThomasThe amount of the fee charged by doctors for signing cremation certificates is not prescribed. Further consideration of the matter should await the report of the Committee on Death Certification and Coroners, which is now sitting. The amount of death grant is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance. I understand that it bears no precise relationship to particular items in the costs of funerals.