Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by the UK Commission on Bereavement entitled Bereavement is everyone's business, published in October 2022, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the (a) finding on the proportion of adult respondents who had difficulties with at least one practical or administrative task following bereavement and (b) recommendation on extending the Tell Us Once service.

The Government established a cross-Government bereavement working group that includes representatives from over ten Government departments. This group is the vehicle by which we are working to ensure how the findings of the UKCB’s report can inform Government policy in the future. We are continuing our dialogue with the Commission Steering Group and are committed to working with the voluntary sector.