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1663711

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing discretionary payments for bereavement support.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	201564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made, however, the Department already has a wide range of financial support available to those affected by bereavement.</p><p>Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) is a contributory benefit intended to help working age people with the immediate costs of bereavement. BSP is payable to the surviving spouse, cohabiting partner (with dependent children), or civil partner of the deceased. Funeral Expenses Payments contribute towards the cost of a funeral arranged by someone in receipt of income-related benefits, and Budgeting Loans and Budgeting Advances are interest-free loans available to claimants of income-related benefits. Further support for day to day living expenses is available via Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/10/2023 16:39:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1545953

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to uprate the value of the Bereavement Support payment which was introduced at its current level in 2017; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	97407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The rate of Bereavement Support Payment is reviewed on a discretionary basis as part of the annual uprating process. Following this year’s review, Bereavement Support Payment will stay at the current rate. This means that claimants on the standard rate will continue to receive a first payment of £2,500 and 18 monthly payments of £100, and those on the higher rate will receive £3,500 followed by 18 monthly payments of £350. <br> <br> Bereavement Support Payment is intended to provide working people with short-term financial support following the death of a spouse or civil partner, to help towards the additional costs associated with a death. It is not means-tested unlike income replacement benefits such as Universal Credit, which we are increasing in line with inflation to protect the least well-off. Families needing extra financial support are protected by this welfare safety net.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 01/12/2022 16:51:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1203675

registered interest
date	15/06/2020
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for bereavement support payment were (a) made and (b) successful at the (i) higher and (ii) lower rate in each year since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	59648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>Experimental official statistics for Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) are published quarterly here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics were published in May 2020 and Table 1 provides the number of BSP claims received by month between April 2017 and December 2019 here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-may-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-may-2020</a></p><p> </p><p>Additional BSP statistics are not currently available and will be published in due course, however, BSP caseload statistics, by rate, are published in the benefit expenditure and caseload tables here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2020</a> <br></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/07/2020 16:47:22 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1203676

registered interest
date	15/06/2020
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid in bereavement support payments in each year since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	59649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>Annual Bereavement Support Payment expenditure statistics are published in the benefit expenditure and caseload tables here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2020</a> <br></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/07/2020 16:43:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1203678

registered interest
date	15/06/2020
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many bereavement support payment claims were made more than three months after the related death, in each year since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	59346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/06/2020 12:48:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1202254

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will extend the Bereavement Support Payment scheme to cover the deaths of parents who were living together or had children together in order to provide support for the remaining partner and their children.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	58111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>It is a key principle that all rights to inheritable benefits derived from another person’s contributions, such as Bereavement Support Payment, should be based on the concept of a legal marriage or civil partnership. However, on 7 February the High Court ruled that the higher rate of Bereavement Support Payment (which is paid to those with children) to be incompatible with the ECHR in that it is only payable where the survivor was married to, or in a civil partnership with the deceased. Whilst this ruling does not change the current legislation, we are carefully considering what to do in response to this judgement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/06/2020 13:19:20 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1175091

registered interest
date	31/01/2020
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on Bereaved Support Payments, published on 22 October 2019, what the expected publication date is of the Government response to that report.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	10752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>We will submit our response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on Bereavement Support Payment once the committee is fully up and running. Any decision on publication will be for the Committee to make.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/02/2020 13:35:37 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1175014

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the Bereavement Support Payment in the light of the changes that were made to that payment in 2017.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	10322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>We have always been committed to evaluating Bereavement Support Payment, but we need to ensure that we have enough information to assess all aspects of the policy, so that the review is meaningful. As BSP was introduced in 2017 and is payable in 18 monthly instalments we are only now reaching a point that we have sufficient data. We will set a date for publication of the review in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/02/2020 17:44:18 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell