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Wednesday adjournment debate on funeral services.
Wednesday adjournment debate on funeral services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if the current review of social security will include the system for paying funeral expenses to poor families.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if the current review of social security will include the system for paying funeral expenses to poor families.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what monitoring she has instigated concerning whether undertakings received from providers of funeral services following recommendations by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (a) have been and (b) have not been carried out; and what further action she intends to take to...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what monitoring she has instigated concerning whether undertakings received from providers of funeral services following recommendations by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (a) have been and (b) have not been carried out; and what further action she intends to take to...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what statistics her Department collates on the ownership and company status of funeral director companies and their subsidiaries.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what statistics her Department collates on the ownership and company status of funeral director companies and their subsidiaries.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the number of permanent jobs in the United Kingdom that are (a) directly and (b) indirectly related to the funeral industry. - Text of letter from Tim Holt of the Office for National Statistics. (Holding answer 1 December 1997).
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the number of permanent jobs in the United Kingdom that are (a) directly and (b) indirectly related to the funeral industry. - Text of letter from Tim Holt of the Office for National Statistics. (Holding answer 1 December 1997).
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 192, if she will list (a) the possible options for consumer protection which the Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs has discussed with the Director General of Fair Trading regarding pre-paid...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 192, if she will list (a) the possible options for consumer protection which the Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs has discussed with the Director General of Fair Trading regarding pre-paid...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 192, if she will list the trading companies that are subsidiaries of registered charities and the registered charities concerned about which she has received representations and if she will list the...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 192, if she will list the trading companies that are subsidiaries of registered charities and the registered charities concerned about which she has received representations and if she will list the...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many people have bought pre-paid funerals in the last two years.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many people have bought pre-paid funerals in the last two years.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will (a) establish a funeral services ombudsman, (b) establish a single code of practice for the supply of funeral services and (c) introduce statutory regulation of pre-paid funeral plans. - Inc ref to 302 c93W, 1 December 1997. (Holding...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will (a) establish a funeral services ombudsman, (b) establish a single code of practice for the supply of funeral services and (c) introduce statutory regulation of pre-paid funeral plans. - Inc ref to 302 c93W, 1 December 1997. (Holding...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 192, if she will list the representations she has received relating to the marketing and selling of pre-paid funeral plans and place copies in the Library. - Inc ref to list...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 192, if she will list the representations she has received relating to the marketing and selling of pre-paid funeral plans and place copies in the Library. - Inc ref to list...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will set up an independent ombudsman to oversee the funeral industry.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will set up an independent ombudsman to oversee the funeral industry.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 191, if she will list the individual funeral directors' businesses that the Monopolies and Mergers Commission recommended Service Corporation International divest, and the dates on which divestment took place in each...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 191, if she will list the individual funeral directors' businesses that the Monopolies and Mergers Commission recommended Service Corporation International divest, and the dates on which divestment took place in each...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 191, if she will list the undertakings given by (a) the Co-operative Wholesale Society and (b) Service Corporation International to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, together with the dates by which...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 19th November, Official Report, column 191, if she will list the undertakings given by (a) the Co-operative Wholesale Society and (b) Service Corporation International to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, together with the dates by which...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many cases for unfair dismissal (a) have been brought by employees of funeral director firms over the past five years and (b) are currently pending; if she will list the names of the parties to the actions; and if she...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many cases for unfair dismissal (a) have been brought by employees of funeral director firms over the past five years and (b) are currently pending; if she will list the names of the parties to the actions; and if she...
Business question on early day motion 504 on prepaid and at need funeral services.
Business question on early day motion 504 on prepaid and at need funeral services.
That this House notes the growing concern over allegations of widespread aggressive and predatory marketing of prepaid and at need funeral and burial services targeted at the elderly and bereaved, the lack of transparency in the ownership of seemingly family run funeral parlours and in the prices charged for their services; the lack of control over the use and management of investments into prepaid funeral plans, now exceeding ??10 million and growing rapidly and over the endorsement of these products by registered charities whose subsidiary trading companies are in receipt of commissions on sales; further notes that recommendations made by the Office of Fair Trading in 1995 to curb anti-competitive practices in the supply of funeral services have yet to be acted upon; and calls on the Government to bring forward legislation without further delay to regulate the selling and management of prepaid funeral investment plans, require total transparency in the declaration and display of ownership of funeral businesses and their charges, control the commercial activities of registered charities and their trading subsidiaries in the context of their charitable status and prohibit anti-competitive and predatory trading practices through direct selling techniques, through monopoly positions, and through exclusive commercial arrangements with nursing homes, hospices and NHS hospitals bereavement services.
That this House notes the growing concern over allegations of widespread aggressive and predatory marketing of prepaid and at need funeral and burial services targeted at the elderly and bereaved, the lack of transparency in the ownership of seemingly family run funeral parlours and in the prices charged for their...
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd November, Official Report, column 3, on his role in the events surrounding the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, if he will list those from whom he sought advice.
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd November, Official Report, column 3, on his role in the events surrounding the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, if he will list those from whom he sought advice.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what consultations she has had with the Director General of Fair Trading regarding the marketing and selling of pre-purchase funeral plans.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what consultations she has had with the Director General of Fair Trading regarding the marketing and selling of pre-purchase funeral plans.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations she has received on the potential for trading links (a) between insurance companies and providers of funeral services and (b) between providers of funeral services and trading companies that are subsidiaries of registered charities to operate against the public...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations she has received on the potential for trading links (a) between insurance companies and providers of funeral services and (b) between providers of funeral services and trading companies that are subsidiaries of registered charities to operate against the public...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what contacts she has had with the Monopolies and Mergers Commission regarding the marketing and selling of pre-purchase funeral plans.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what contacts she has had with the Monopolies and Mergers Commission regarding the marketing and selling of pre-purchase funeral plans.