Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nigel Adams and Caroline Dinenage

Tuesday 2nd July 2013 Commons Chamber

[Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty) (Con)]

11. If he will take steps to ensure that in cases where a person has disappeared and is presumed dead, their family and loved ones are better able to deal with the practical and administrative issues that arise. [R]

[Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)]

13. If he will take steps to ensure that in cases where a person has disappeared and is presumed dead, their family and loved ones are better able to deal with the practical and administrative issues that arise.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Mrs Helen Grant)]

We are working with the General Register Office to create the rules and regulations necessary to implement the Presumption of Death Act 2013, which will create a single certificate of presumed death equivalent to a death certificate.