Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to provide grant funding to local authorities to help with the costs of installing live web streaming facilities at crematoria to allow mourners to pay their respects remotely amid restrictions on funeral gatherings during the covid-19 outbreak.

On 18 April an additional £1.6 billion of funding was made available to support local authorities with costs of responding to Covid-19, bringing the total of additional funding to more than £3.2 billion. This funding is to support local authorities with the additional cost pressures from the extra work we have asked them to carry out as a result of the epidemic, which includes death management.