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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) care home staff and (b) funeral directors are able to access personal protective equipment to reduce the risk of covid-19 transmission; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) care home staff and (b) funeral directors are able to access personal protective equipment to reduce the risk of covid-19 transmission; and if he will make a statement.
The Department has published a personal protective equipment (PPE) plan which sets out steps taken towards three strands of work: guidance, delivery and future supply. The plan can be found at the following link:
We have also published the Adult Social Care Action Plan, which details new ways for care homes to order PPE, including through direct dispatches via Royal Mail, a 24 hours a day, seven days a week hotline and a new pilot website. The Action Plan can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-adult-social-care-action-plan
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of burial costs covered by the first element of the Funeral Expenses Payments which were not paid in full in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of burial costs covered by the first element of the Funeral Expenses Payments which were not paid in full in each of the last three years.
Funeral Expenses Payments are intended to meet the necessary costs of burial. However the allowed amount may be adjusted by the decision maker using the necessary cost guidance in Chapter 39 of the Decision Makers Guide: Social Fund Payments at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572416/dmgch39.pdf.
Information on the amount of these adjustments is not collated centrally and no assessment has been made of the proportion of burial costs covered by Funeral Expenses Payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2017 to Question 113185, what increase has been made to the funeral directors fees element in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2017 to Question 113185, what increase has been made to the funeral directors fees element in each of the last 10 years.
The Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment’s scheme, comprises two elements. The element which covers ‘other costs’ and may be used to pay funeral director’s fees, has been set to a maximum payment of £700 since 2003.
In 2016-17, around 27,000 Funeral Expenses Payment awards were made worth £38.6 million.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of data in the Royal London National Funeral Cost Index 2017 on the difference between average funeral costs and average Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment (SFFEP) awards; what assessment he has made of trends in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of data in the Royal London National Funeral Cost Index 2017 on the difference between average funeral costs and average Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment (SFFEP) awards; what assessment he has made of trends in...
We continue to monitor the Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payments scheme and work towards improving it, while supporting the most vulnerable with their funeral expenses. As part of this work, my officials have worked extensively with representatives of the funeral industry and the Royal London is one of these. In the past ten years, the average Funeral Expenses Payment has increased in value by about 28% from £1,117 in 2006/07 to £1,427 in 2016/17 while inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index measure increased by around 26%.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his Department's policy to raise the funeral director's fees element of the funeral fund in line with inflation; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his Department's policy to raise the funeral director's fees element of the funeral fund in line with inflation; and if he will make a statement.
The Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payments scheme comprises two elements. The first element covers the ‘necessary’ costs of arranging a funeral, which can include: the purchase of a grave; necessary burial or cremation fees; the cost of any medical references or the removal of active implanted medical devices for cremations; reasonable costs if a body has to be moved more than fifty miles; and travel costs for the applicant to arrange and attend the funeral. These ‘necessary’ costs are paid in full and there is no maximum contribution.
The second element covers all other costs, including the funeral director’s fees. These other costs are subject to a maximum of £700. We have no plans at this time to review this component of the scheme.
That this House notes with concern that value added tax is applicable to the erection and maintenance of memorials to the deceased; considers this to be an unnecessary and insensitive tax on the bereaved and those who wish to honour the memory of loved ones; observes that a tax refund for charities and faith groups for the erection of memorials has been in place for some years now in the form of the Memorial Grant Scheme; calls on the Government to extend the scheme to all memorials; and urges the Government to raise at European level the possibility of abolishing such taxes altogether.
That this House notes with concern that value added tax is applicable to the erection and maintenance of memorials to the deceased; considers this to be an unnecessary and insensitive tax on the bereaved and those who wish to honour the memory of loved ones; observes that a tax refund...