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	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Public Health Funerals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of pauper's funerals in each of the last three years; and what steps his Department is taking to support families on low incomes with the costs of funerals.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	216270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>My department does not collect data on the number of Local Authority funerals.</p><p> </p><p>The Social Fund Funeral Payment scheme continues to provide help towards a simple, respectful, low-cost funeral and in 2013/14, over 33,000 awards were made worth £44.7 million, with an average award of £1,347.</p><p> </p><p>Social Fund Budgeting Loans are also available to those on income related benefits to cover costs relating to funeral expenses.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/12/2014 11:44:12 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Frank Field

1054614

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Small Claims: Industrial Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of non-road traffic workplace accident claims that will be affected by the increase to the small claims limit.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	216270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s reform to increase the small claims limit for employers and public liability claims to £2,000 is in line with inflation, consistent with the way that increases to the Judicial College Guidelines are calculated. The increase will lead to a similar breadth of non-road traffic claims being affected as were when the limit was set at £1,000 in 1991.</p><p>This issue was debated in depth in both Houses during the passage of the Civil Liability Act 2018, and further information is also available in the Government’s consultation response which outlines its assessment and decision on this issue at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reforming-the-soft-tissue-injury-whiplash-claims-process" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reforming-the-soft-tissue-injury-whiplash-claims-process</a> .</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 216271 question first answered 08/02/2019 14:56:25 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 100480 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero