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Commons Chamber
Social Security - Mon 05 Feb 2018
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Neil Gray (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) while the cost of funerals continues to rise at an incredible rate. - Speech Link
2: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) the bereavement support grant. - Speech Link
3: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Neil Gray) asked why bereavement support payments have not been uprated - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Local Authority Funeral Charges - Tue 24 Oct 2017
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) Carolyn Harris) for all her work in that regard; I will refer to her again later.The rising cost of funerals - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) As a headline in The Times so aptly put it, “RIP affordable funerals”. - Speech Link
3: Phillip Lee (LDEM - Bracknell) of wider bereavement services, such as Co-op Funeralcare, that have made the decision to waive fees - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill
2nd reading: House of Commons - Fri 20 Oct 2017
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) Bereavement UK, Bliss, Together for Short Lives and Jack’s Rainbow, and all the other charitable organisations - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) They will have to deal with funerals and administration. - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) bereavement rooms, dedicated space and facilities in hospitals and elsewhere. - Speech Link
4: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) care pathways, the bereavement suites and now this Bill on bereavement leave and pay. - Speech Link
5: Margot James (CON - Stourbridge) Concerns have been raised in the House in recent months that the cost of child funerals can be an additional - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Easter Adjournment - Thu 30 Mar 2017
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: David Amess (CON - Southend West) does wonderful work.On funerals and bereavement, following meetings with Dignity funeral services and - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) or bereavement benefits that are being withdrawn or rationed because of Government funding cuts.In the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for the Bereaved - Thu 02 Mar 2017
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Field of Birkenhead (CB - Life peer) they have been renamed local authority funerals or public health funerals, everyone locally knows they - Speech Link
2: Lord Harrington of Watford (CON - Life peer) costs of funerals in the industry. - Speech Link
3: Lord Harrington of Watford (CON - Life peer) I recall, on children’s funerals. - Speech Link
4: Lord Harrington of Watford (CON - Life peer) bereavement benefits: the bereavement payment, bereavement allowance and widowed parent’s allowance.Losing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Christmas Adjournment - Tue 20 Dec 2016
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) funerals, where things are done at the last minute. - Speech Link
2: David Amess (CON - Southend West) was clear to me that those services are very important.I praise the all-party parliamentary group for funerals - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (CON - Northampton North) We wish them and all our constituents, especially those who have suffered a bereavement, all the very - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children’s Funeral Costs - Mon 28 Nov 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) For £10 million, the fees for children’s funerals could be covered right across the country. - Speech Link
2: Marcus Jones (CON - Nuneaton) I understand that a number of local authorities already choose to waive fees for children’s funerals. - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) As we have heard, parents in a fog of bereavement cannot even think of filling in DWP forms, and a grant - Speech Link
4: Marcus Jones (CON - Nuneaton) bereavement charities, because it is important that the Government have a better understanding of how - Speech Link
5: Marcus Jones (CON - Nuneaton) I represent many Muslim constituents and I know that when they have a bereavement in the community, they - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Social Fund Funeral Payments - Wed 14 Sep 2016
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) The Government have considered bereavement benefits and decided that it is inappropriate for cohabiting - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Health trusts and councils have carried out about 90 funerals since 2008, and in 2013-14—the most recent - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) He raised a very specific matter about bereavement benefits and cohabiting couples. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Burial or Cremation (Delays) - Tue 03 May 2016
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Mark Pawsey (CON - Rugby) The subject was considered by the all-party parliamentary group on funerals and bereavement, which was - Speech Link
2: Caroline Dinenage (CON - Gosport) on 16 December last year to bring my attention to the report by the all-party parliamentary group on funerals - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill (Second sitting) - Tue 01 Mar 2016
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) be entitled, and indeed duty-bound, to conduct a root-and-branch review. - Speech Link
2: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) Works impacting human remains and associated monuments are an emotive and complex matter, and HS2 Ltd - Speech Link
3: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) I have already mentioned the issue of the elm and Dutch elm disease, and the ash and ash dieback.We are - Speech Link
4: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) impounding and other matters related to water and drainage. - Speech Link