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date	08/06/2016
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	Widowed Parent's Allowance
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 children likely to be affected by the planned replacement of widowed parent's allowance by bereavement allowance.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	39909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Bereavement support payments will be introduced from April 2017 for new claimants only. Existing claimants of Widowed Parent's Allowance and Bereavement Allowance will remain on those benefits for the lifetime of their awards therefore there will be no impact on them or their families.</p><p> </p><p>Bereavement Support Payment is forecasted to cost the Department for Work and Pensions an extra £100m in the first three years. The full cost to the exchequer will be greater than this as, unlike its predecessors, Bereavement Support Payment will not be taxable.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on forecast expenditure is provided via the link below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487612/outturn-and-forecast-autumn-statement-2015.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487612/outturn-and-forecast-autumn-statement-2015.xlsx</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 39910 question first answered 15/06/2016 14:56:50 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

524054

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
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	Widowed Parent's Allowance
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 annual saving which would be generated by the planned replacement of widowed parent's allowance by bereavement allowance.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	39910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Bereavement support payments will be introduced from April 2017 for new claimants only. Existing claimants of Widowed Parent's Allowance and Bereavement Allowance will remain on those benefits for the lifetime of their awards therefore there will be no impact on them or their families.</p><p> </p><p>Bereavement Support Payment is forecasted to cost the Department for Work and Pensions an extra £100m in the first three years. The full cost to the exchequer will be greater than this as, unlike its predecessors, Bereavement Support Payment will not be taxable.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on forecast expenditure is provided via the link below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487612/outturn-and-forecast-autumn-statement-2015.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487612/outturn-and-forecast-autumn-statement-2015.xlsx</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 39909 question first answered 15/06/2016 14:56:50 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald