Death Certificates: Digital Technology
(asked on 21st April 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce digital death certificates by April 2022.
This question was answered on 27th April 2021
The Home Office continues to pursue opportunities to digitise the death registration process, including working with the Department of Health and Social Care on the introduction of an electronic Medical Certificate of Cause of Death.
There are no current plans to introduce a digital version of a death certificate.