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Funeral Payments

Commons · Question 72450 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 5 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Ayoub Khan

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 62414 on Funeral Payments, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) amending the family-related questions for the ap

Answer

Answered by Torsten Bell, 5 Sep 2025

The long standing state position is that individuals should look to make financial provision for their own funeral, and that where this has not happened family or friends who can take part or all of the responsibility for the cost of funeral arrangements ...