Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to publish its response to the consultation on bereavement-related employment support; and whether that consultation will inform future policy on the Bereavement Support Payment.

While this Department has not undertaken a consultation on bereavement related employment support, the rate of Bereavement Support Payment is reviewed annually on a discretionary basis as part of the annual uprating process.