Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have received their full entitlement to Bereavement Support Payment in each of the last five years; and how many people have received a reduced entitlement to that payment due to a late application.

Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) was introduced in April 2017, to replace Widowed Parent’s Allowance, Bereavement Allowance and Bereavement Payments. As such we can only provide figures from April 2017 to June 2018 as this is the latest available information that we hold

Bereavement Support Payment statistics can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistical-summaries-2018

The information requested on reduced entitlement to a payment due to a late application is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.