PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Bereavement Support Payment (15 June 2020)

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.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

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

Answered by:
Mims Davies (Conservative)
6 July 2020