Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 72451

Funeral Payments

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

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 assessing the (a) ability and (b) willingness of oth

Answer

Torsten Bell

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 ...

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