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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None According to the DWP website, certain benefits, such as maternity allowance and bereavement allowance - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) employment support allowance. - Speech Link
3: None , additional pensions, state maternity allowance, bereavement payment, bereavement allowance, bereavement - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Pay (Bereavement) Bill, the British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill and the High Streets (Designation - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) of two grieving families—two sets of parents, including one from my constituency. - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) During that time she received no benefit support, after losing employment and support allowance. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) They have been standing up and fighting, and they deserve our support in doing so. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Bereavement Benefits (Remedial) Order 2022 - Tue 24 Jan 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) support payment and its predecessor, widowed parent’s allowance, to bereaved cohabitees with dependent - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) Eligibility for widowed parent’s allowance and the higher rate of bereavement support payment will be - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) of widowed parent’s allowance or the bereavement support payment before the date on which the order - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Bereavement Benefits (Remedial) Order 2022 - Tue 17 Jan 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) It will extend the higher rate of bereavement support payment and its predecessor, widowed parent’s allowance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 11 May 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) They have even fought two court cases to prevent bereavement support from going to families, just because - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) The Scottish Government established a Scottish child payment in the last Parliament and have committed - Speech Link
3: David Amess (CON - Southend West) I have constituents who rely on the carer’s allowance and whose elderly parents have dementia. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Duchess of Cambridge has recognised that the lack of support for parents in this area is a huge issue - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 08 Mar 2021
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) Many disabled young people claim employment and support allowance instead. - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (LAB - Coventry South) health assessments for (i) employment and support allowance and (ii) personal independence payment. - Speech Link
3: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) support allowance and income-based jobseeker’s allowance is paid to eligible claimants to provide additional - Speech Link
4: Christian Wakeford (LAB - Bury South) ensure that grieving children and their surviving parents receive bereavement support payments no matter - Speech Link
5: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) parents allowance and bereavement support payment by extending those benefits to unmarried cohabiting - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Thu 04 Jun 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None Lone parents will lose around 15% of their net income on average, which is almost £1 in every £6. - Speech Link
2: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) for children and young people, and the Scottish child payment. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) allowance, carer’s allowance, contributory and youth ESA, income-based ESA, some but not all incapacity - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019 - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Buscombe (CON - Life peer) , the employment and support allowance support group component and the limited capability for work and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LDEM - Life peer) Can the Minister explain the freezing of bereavement support payments for the coming year, even though - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) of income support; jobseeker’s allowance; the personal allowances and work-related activity components - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Widowed Parent’s Allowance - Wed 23 Jan 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) and the need to update the eligibility criteria of its successor, bereavement support payment, following - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) support payment, which replaced widowed parent’s allowance. - Speech Link
3: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) As I said, it has always been our intention to assess the impact of the bereavement support payment, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Widowed Parent’s Allowance - Wed 05 Sep 2018
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) support payments, the successor to widowed parent’s allowance. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) That led to the Government introducing the bereavement support payment in April 2017 to replace widowed - Speech Link