Petitions/Provide funding to preserve and protect cemeteries around the UK.
StatusClosed
Opened21 Feb 2025
Closes21 Aug 2025
Government responseResponded
Parliamentary debateNot eligible
Milestones 10,000

We feel that much more funding for cemeteries is needed to care, maintain, protect and preserve them now and in the years ahead.

We think this is important as babies, children, adults and those in the Armed Forces are resting in cemeteries, their forever home. We feel that these places are where we honour, remember and pay our respects to those we love and cherish with all our hearts. We feel that we all live on through our precious loved one's who have gone before us and the legacies left behind by millions of these people. We believe that cemeteries are not sufficiently funded when they should be beautiful open green spaces we are all proud of.

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Government response

Local authority cemeteries are managed by councils, who set budgets and make service decisions locally. Privately owned cemeteries operate independently and are maintained by their respective owners.

Constituency engagement ranking

Jess Phillips
1Jess Phillips MP
Birmingham Yardley
1,012
Liam Byrne
2Liam Byrne MP
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North
359
Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst
3Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst MP
Solihull West and Shirley
304
Saqib Bhatti
4Saqib Bhatti MP
Meriden and Solihull East
279
Tahir Ali
5Tahir Ali MP
Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley
134
Paulette Hamilton
6Paulette Hamilton MP
Birmingham Erdington
119
Shabana Mahmood
7Shabana Mahmood MP
Birmingham Ladywood
118
Al Carns
8Al Carns MP
Birmingham Selly Oak
93
Sir Andrew Mitchell
9Sir Andrew Mitchell MP
Sutton Coldfield
69
Rachel Taylor
10Rachel Taylor MP
North Warwickshire and Bedworth
66
Provide funding to preserve and protect cemeteries around the UK. — Petitions