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	date	19/03/2020
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Cemeteries: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church is taking to ensure the maintenance of its burial grounds.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	32199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The responsibility for maintenance of Church of England churchyards that are open for burials lies with each Parochial Church Council. However, if the churchyard has been closed for burials by order of the Privy Council or other agreement, the usual practice is for responsibility to transfer to the relevant Local Authority. Maintenance of a closed churchyard is still undertaken in line with the relevant ecclesiastical legislation, which still applies. Each diocese similarly produces its own guidance and regulations.</p><p> </p><p>Advice and guidance is always available for parishes and all local authorities from the Cathedral and Church Buildings Division of the Archbishops’ Council. The Church Buildings Division is currently developing a digital Burial Grounds Management System with external partners. This will in the next few years digitally map all graveyards and burial records to allow a publicly available and searchable records and monuments map to increase access to our churchyards. Following a successful trial in the Diocese of Leeds this project will gradually roll out to the rest of the country.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 24/03/2020 17:15:44 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

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	registered interest
	date	29/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Cemeteries: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities on the maintenance of municipal cemeteries.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	176717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on the local provision of graveyards and cemeteries. Local authorities play a vital role in providing essential services to their communities, and they are best placed to determine local provision.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 17/04/2023 11:51:44 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford