Welfare burials
The Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984 places a statutory duty on Breckland District Council for registering the death and arranging the funeral of any person who has died within the borough of Breckland in cases where there are no known relatives or friends able to make the necessary arrangements.
The council, along with many other local authorities, has been experiencing a huge rise in Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from companies offering to trace the next of kin of persons being buried under the Public Health Act 1948. In response to the volume of FOI requests on this subject the council has created this page to make public all cases it refers to the Treasury Solicitor. In this way the council has fulfilled its obligation under section 22 of the FOI Act (future publication) and will from this point forward refuse all such requests and refer applicants to this web page.
| Name | Born - Died | Cost | Next of Kin | Treasury Solicitor | Town/Village | Burial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rodney Cable | 03/04/43 - 03/12/06 | £761 | Yes | No | Thetford | Burial |
| Ronald Burke | 08/05/33 - 26/03/07 | £573 | No | No | Thetford | Burial |
| Arthur Ellender | 16/02/38 - 29/01/09 | £989 | No | No | Dereham | Burial |
| Terrance Presant | 12/05/46 - 04/12/09 | £2,300 | Yes | Yes | Hockering | Cremation |
| Mariusz Fidos | 01/06/76 - 20/12/09 | £1,613 | Yes | No | Cremation | |
| Pedro Branco | Unknown - 06/01/10 | £973 | No | No | Thetford | Cremation |
| George Dixon | 15/01/24 - 26/04/10 | £1,584 | Yes | No | Gt Hockham | Cremation |
| Pavel Sedlacek | 03/08/44 - 09/05/10 | £973 | Yes | No | Cremation | |
| Roger Harden | Unknown - 20/10/10 | £1,025 | Yes | No | Attleborough | Cremation |
| Danuta Drozdzynska | 31/03/58 - 21/09/11 | £1,051 | Yes | No | Attleborough | Cremation |
| Peter Kersey | 07/06/37 - 22/10/11 | £1,206 | Yes | No | Watton | Cremation |
| Paulo Nicolau | 12/01/67 - 04/11/11 | £1,051 | Yes | No | Litcham | Cremation |
| Edward Stopforth | 11/04/35 - 14/02/12 | £1,077 | Yes | No | Watton | Cremation |
| Frederick Holland | 01/04/22 - 10/04/12 | £1,112 | No | No | Dereham | Cremation |
| Paulo Jorgie Ramos Henrique | 20/10/66 - 21/07/12 | £995 | Yes | No | Thetford | Cremation |
| Eileen Gammans | Unknown - 19/09/12 | £2,032 | Yes | No | Watton | Cremation |
| Andrew Courtney | Unknown - 22/12/12 | £1,292 | No | No | Longham | Cremation |
| William Bunting | 17/10/37 - 26/01/13 | £1,045 | No | No | Guist | Cremation |
| Roburtus Cepkauskas | 16/03/80 - 22/02/13 | £1,045 | Yes | No | Newmarket | Cremation |
| Laimutis Karsokas | 03/09/65 - 08/03/13 | £1,195 | Yes | No | Thetford | Cremation |
| Sean Lawrence | 25/04/66 - 27/01/13 | £1,045 | No | No | Scarning | Cremation |
| Leslie Loades | 08/04/37 - 17/03/13 | £1,382 | No | No | Swaffham | Cremation |
| Guy Morris | 19/05/35 - 04/03/14 | £1,095 | No | No | Attleborough | Cremation |
| John Rand | 29/05/45 - 29/11/16 | £1,589 | Yes | No | Attleborough | Cremation |
| Ivan Howes | 04/08/33 - 15/12/16 | £1,484.50 | No | No | Shropham | Cremation |
| Michael Holton | 13/01/36 - 01/01/17 | £1,464.50 | Yes | No | Watton | Cremation |
| Frank Warmer | 21/04/49 - 09/04/17 | £1,665.33 | Yes | No | Dereham | Burial |
| Luis FelipeD'Oliviera Santos | 16/05/42 - 22/05/17 | £1,360 | Yes | No | Gressenhall | Cremation |
| Margaret Lathan | Unknown - Unknown | £1,213 | Yes | No | Dereham | Cremation |
| Michelle Ellis | 15/03/69 - 24/07/17 | £1,542.80 | Yes | No | Rockland All Saints | Cremation |
| John Fullbrook | 03/03/45 - 19/06/18 | £1,783.50 | Yes | No | Thetford | Cremation |
| Darren Cushion | 17/08/67 - 13/11/18 | £799 | Yes | No | Thetford | Cremation |
| Andrew Willis | 11/08/52 - 07/12/18 | £2,670 | No | Yes | Kenninghall | Cremation |
| Richard Johnson | 30/11/59 - 09/01/19 | £1,000 | Yes | No | Bintree | Cremation |
| Paul Mcveigh | 10/10/39 - 17/02/19 | £1,983.50 | No | No | Scarning | Cremation |
| Dariusz Borkowski | 10/06/66 - 09/07/19 | £1,540 | Yes | No | Thetford | Cremation |
| Raymond Challis | 27/12/41 - 02/11/19 | £2,024 | Yes | No | Attleborough | Cremation |
| John Roberts | Unknown - 13/11/19 | £1,064 | No | No | Thetford | Cremation |
| Philip Blackburn | 17/10/39 - 25/05/20 | £1,026 | No | No | Norwich | Cremation |
| John Andrews | 28/10/29 - 08/02/20 | £2,659 | No | No | Watton | Cremation |
| Ian Cruickshank | Unknown - 05/06/20 | £1,897 | No | No | Thetford | Cremation |
| Stella Camacho | 25/12/39 - 16/07/20 | £1,495 | No | No | Griston | Cremation |
| Brian Wilson | 10/07/45 - 21/08/20 | £1,150 | Yes | No | Swaffham | Cremation |
| Harvey Bush | Unknown - 17/09/20 | £1,200 | Yes | No | Attleborough | Cremation |
| Timothy Howard | 19/09/65 - 06/10/20 | £1,000 | Yes | No | Watton | Cremation |
| Doreen Perry-Mason | 05/08/47 - 29/09/20 | £1,474.04 | Yes | No | Weeting | Cremation |
| Alan Francois | 30/11/40 - 26/10/20 | £845 | No | No | Watton | Cremation |
| Angela Roberts | 13/06/77 - 02/10/20 | £845 | Yes | No | Lyng | Cremation |
| Pam Prior | 13/12/47 - 07/01/20 | £845 | Yes | No | Whissonsett | Cremation |
Breckland Council does not disclose last known address details and rely upon the following exemptions:
FOI Act 2000 Section 31(1) - law enforcement (prevention and detection of crime)
The deceased's property may be unoccupied and might still contain the deceased's personal papers and effects.
FOI Act 2000 Section 40(2)
Provides an absolute exemption where disclosure of personal data about individuals would contravene any of the data protection principles set out in the Data Protection Act 2018. Disclosure of addresses may affect living individuals. We do not believe that living individuals currently residing at the addresses where the deceased persons lived would expect their personal data to be made available in the public domain without their consent.
Section 22 of the FOI Act
Any FOI requests received in relation to these matters received prior to the next planned publication date will be refused using the exemption under Section 22 of the FOI Act as it is information that we hold with the intention of publishing at some future (pre-scheduled) date. The existing information available to you demonstrates that the council has a process in place to regularly and routinely publish this information. The council recognises that at times information outside of this routine publication may be requested and that the council should be open and transparent in its operations and more up to date information may assist this. The information is, however, freely available on the council's website, and there is a statutory duty and timescale for publication. In accordance with the publication schedule quality and accuracy of information is checked. To provide information outside of this schedule may impede the process and potentially impact on the quality and accuracy of the material disclosed. As a consequence, having considered the balance of public interest in favour of both withholding and disclosing information, the council considers that the arguments in favour of maintaining the exemption outweigh the arguments in favour of disclosing it.
Norfolk Registry Office
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Last updated: 30/03/2022 13:22:48