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date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Public Health Funerals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing (a) national minimum standards and (b) eligibility criteria to the administration of public health funerals.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	132702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has not made such an assessment.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 19/03/2018 16:11:49 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

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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 Lord Field of Birkenhead