Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will publish all correspondence her and her predecessor had with (a) Hull City Council, (b) the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North and (c) constituent Tina Trowhill on baby ashes and cremation working practices.

It is not our practice to publish ministerial correspondence.

The Ministry of Justice has a note of the meeting of 22 February 2016 when the then Justice Secretary met the Honourable Member and your constituent Tina Trowhill to discuss baby ashes and cremation practices. A civil servant attended the meeting.

The Government has made clear that historic infant cremation practices must never be repeated. That is why we took decisive action, following a well-received consultation, to introduce a statutory definition of ashes and modernise crematoria processes. Other work is in hand.

Hull City Council has decided against a local investigation, and has made substantial improvements to cremation processes.