To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Lords Chamber
Welfare Reform and Work Bill - Mon 21 Dec 2015
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) , Amendments 84 and 85 would exclude from the cap widowed mother’s allowance and widowed parent’s allowance - Speech Link
2: None I cannot see why we would want to exclude all specified benefits payable for children and widowed parents - Speech Link
3: None Two of the benefits that noble Lords are seeking to exclude from the cap are the widowed mother’s allowance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welfare Reform and Work Bill - Tue 27 Oct 2015
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Neil Coyle (IND - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) employment and support allowance never materialised? - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) We have exempted pensioner-related benefits, personal independence payment, disability allowance and - Speech Link
3: Natascha Engel (LAB - North East Derbyshire) , Employment Support Allowance and Income Support , to measure the impact on—(a) to lone parents with - Speech Link
4: Eilidh Whiteford (SNP - Banff and Buchan) , severe disablement allowance and widowed parent’s allowance.The bottom line, and the key point to be - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Sixth sitting) - Thu 17 Sep 2015
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) , disability living allowance, personal independence payment or the support component of employment and - Speech Link
2: None (p).This amendment would remove widowed parent’s allowance from the benefit cap. - Speech Link
3: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) after death, bereavement allowance helps people to get back on their feet and cope with the potential - Speech Link
4: None This amendment would remove widowed mother’s allowance from the benefit cap. - Speech Link
5: None This amendment would remove widowed parent’s allowance from the benefit cap. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Contaminated Blood - Thu 15 Jan 2015
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) for widowed partners and spouses was vital and that some form of inquiry was still relevant. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) He also wants automatic passporting to employment and support allowance and disability benefits for all - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) Lynn was widowed at 35. - Speech Link
4: Jane Ellison (CON - Battersea) other support through the system of payment schemes that is in place. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill [HL] - Fri 27 Jun 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) from parents was entirely dissipated. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) of the parents as well—but while the law remains as it is, parents are often driven into the courts very - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wilcox (CON - Life peer) I have been both divorced and widowed, so I understand, know and feel deeply what happens during those - Speech Link
4: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) proceedings for divorce may apply to a court for an order in relation to matrimonial property, for the payment - Speech Link
5: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) I simply point out to the Government that the widows’ bereavement allowance lasts for only one year these - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pensions Bill - Mon 24 Feb 2014
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) support payment.Amendment 19 seeks to clarify that the bereavement support payment will be payable to - Speech Link
2: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) With a simple payment structure focusing support on the period immediately after the bereavement and - Speech Link
3: None Analysis shows that if bereavement support payment is treated as a survivor’s pension and is paid over - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hollis of Heigham (LAB - Life peer) budget for bereavement support payment exempt any widowed parent from work conditionality while in receipt - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hollis of Heigham (LAB - Life peer) : trying to protect and support widowed parents for the first 12 months of their bereavement. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pensions Bill - Wed 15 Jan 2014
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hollis of Heigham (LAB - Life peer) The number of new widowed parents claiming the allowance varies between 50,000 and 100,000 a year. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) I have no doubt at all that the replacement of the widowed parent’s allowance by the bereavement support - Speech Link
3: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) how widowed mother’s allowance and widowed parent’s allowance are to be treated under universal credit - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pensions Bill - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord McKenzie of Luton (LAB - Life peer) bereavement benefits, not to contributory benefits. - Speech Link
2: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) This is because the gain from current system inheritance at the point of bereavementand, potentially - Speech Link
3: Lord McKenzie of Luton (LAB - Life peer) and bereavement entitlements only. - Speech Link
4: None Where a benefit is not in payment, an application is required. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pensions Bill - Mon 16 Dec 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) removing some pension already in payment, such as derived entitlement and the savings credit. - Speech Link
2: None Steve Webb moved amendments in the other place to that effect on bereavement benefits in July, so it - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hollis of Heigham (LAB - Life peer) Unlike lone parents, who are savvy and feisty about their benefits—well, usually—and have very high claim - Speech Link
4: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) the employment allowance, as announced in the Budget 2013. - Speech Link
5: None for the future, particularly for when, as is likely, I am widowed, and lose three-quarters of our income - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pensions Bill - Tue 03 Dec 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) benefits system through the introduction of the bereavement support payment, which will both simplify - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) At the moment, they can claim widowed parent’s allowance for as long as they claim child benefit, although - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bishops - Bishops) provide for a lump sum and then bereaved support payment for one year, instead of longer term support - Speech Link
4: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) and the importance of the support of parents. - Speech Link