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78608

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date	16/07/2014
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	Funeral Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time is taken to process an application for funeral expenses from the Social Fund from the time an application is submitted to a decision being taken.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Mark Lazarowicz
uin	206104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The clearance time for Funeral Payments, as published in the 2012/13 Social Fund Annual report, is an average of 14.76 days, against a target of 16 days</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 22/07/2014 11:27:29 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1411 label Biography information for Mark Lazarowicz

78609

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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	Funeral Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many current applications for funeral expenses from the Social Fund have been outstanding for longer than (a) 16 days, (b) 18 days and (c) 21 days.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Mark Lazarowicz
uin	206106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>This information is not held in the format requested and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 01/09/2014 15:09:36 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1411 label Biography information for Mark Lazarowicz

65812

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Funeral Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will review the rate for Social Fund funeral expenses payments.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Mark Lazarowicz
uin	203946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>There are no current plans to review the rate of funeral payments. However, for those who are eligible to be considered for a budgeting loan payment, the scope of this scheme has now been expanded to include funeral costs.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 08/07/2014 14:39:26 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1411 label Biography information for Mark Lazarowicz