Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential cost of obtaining certified copies of death certificates from the General Register Office; and whether she has plans to review those fees.

Civil registration fees, including those for issuing certificates, are set at a level to recover the full cost of delivering the service in line with HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money Principles. All fees are reviewed to prevent them falling below cost recovery levels; the fee for a certificate was last increased in May 2024.