First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021
To provide a forum for the discussion of funeral and bereavement issues.
1. Churches’ Funerals Group
29/11/2019 - Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
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Found:
s
Response
from the Churches
Funerals Group
(CFG
) was formed in 1982 by the mainstream
2. Letter to local authorities to work with faith groups and funeral directors to develop safe, sensitive and innovative ways for funerals to take place
17/04/2020 - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Found: develop safe, sensitive and innovative ways for funerals to take place
Letter to all local authorities
3. Richard Blake
29/11/2019 - Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
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Found: directors as they would
still offer the traditional funerals currently offered to those who require that
option
4. Support for the bereaved
23/04/2020 - Cabinet Office
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Found: your local council by visiting:
gov.uk/find-bereavement-services-from-council
Preparing for the funeralDuring
5. Department for Work and Pensions - written evidence
22/05/2019 - Inquiry: Support for the bereaved - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: provide support in recognition of this. Together bereavement benefits and Funeral Expenses Payments provide
1. Bereavement Services
13/02/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: them through the difficult period following bereavement. The Tell Us Once service was introduced to develop - Speech Link
2: cited, insist on slimming down and streamlining “bereavement bureaucracy” and deliver a much better deal for - Speech Link
3: the Government rather controversially reformed bereavement payments to families who had lost a parent. However - Speech Link
2. Covid-19: Medical and Funeral Expenses
28/09/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: by £300. We are also supporting public health funerals by issuing new guidance to local authorities to - Speech Link
2: expenses payment and through the public health funerals programme has been enhanced. In 2018, £6.3 million - Speech Link
3: council days in social services we handled a lot of funerals for people who simply had no money? This is a - Speech Link
3. Paupers' Funerals
05/07/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: friend, or even—the worst nightmare of all—a child. Funerals provide the chance of a final goodbye. They allow - Speech Link
4. Bereavement
03/02/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: it.I thank the charities Settld, Cruse Bereavement Care and Sue Ryder, which helped me to prepare - Speech Link
2: being done in the private sector around the bereavement standard and we have the Government’s Tell Us - Speech Link
3: the all-party parliamentary group for funerals and bereavement. I wonder if he could add to his list - Speech Link
5. Support for the Bereaved
02/03/2017 - Westminster Hall
1: of the Work and Pensions Committee report on bereavement benefits; to give Members an opportunity, from - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Sir John Hayes MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 1389.
Email: hayesj@parliament.uk
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Funerals and Bereavement APPG