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Written question asked by Bill Olner (Labour) on Wednesday, 20 November 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 3 December 2002. It was answered by Malcolm Wicks (Labour) on Tuesday, 3 December 2002 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Dept for Work and Pensions

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will remove parochial fees from his Department's funeral fund payments and treat the fees for a religious service in line with other disbursements; if he will make a statement on the range of Parochial Fees charged for funerals. - Inc figures.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
395 c733-4W;395 c732W; 83239;83696
Session
2002-03
Subjects
Fees and charges Funerals Recipients Ministers of religion Social security benefits Social Fund Welfare tax credits Religion Funeral payments
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk