Asked by: Peter Swallow (Labour - Bracknell)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of uprating bereavement support payments in line with inflation.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my hon. Friend the then Minister for Transformation on 13 March 2026 to Question UIN 117672.
Asked by: Peter Swallow (Labour - Bracknell)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress he has made on consulting on reform to the calculation of Child maintenance.
Answered by Andrew Western - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
We will announce further details in due course.
Given the significant amount of time since the child maintenance calculation was updated, we need to assess carefully the impact of any proposed changes on all parents that use the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to ensure they effectively support families and children and that they are introduced in a way which works well for CMS customers.