Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for bereavement support payment were (a) made and (b) successful at the (i) higher and (ii) lower rate in each year since its introduction.
Experimental official statistics for Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) are published quarterly here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries
The latest statistics were published in May 2020 and Table 1 provides the number of BSP claims received by month between April 2017 and December 2019 here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-may-2020
Additional BSP statistics are not currently available and will be published in due course, however, BSP caseload statistics, by rate, are published in the benefit expenditure and caseload tables here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2020