Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specific financial support for parent who was the full time carer of a child with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition for whom they were in receipt of benefits and on Universal Credit, following that child’s death.

There are currently no plans to introduce a Bereavement Support Payment for parents who were full-time carers of a child with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition.

Payment of Universal Credit will continue, unreduced, as a bereavement run-on for the current assessment period and the two assessment periods following the bereavement.