Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Soley (Labour), on Monday, 20 February 1995, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 68 members in total.

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SOCIAL FUND FUNERAL PAYMENTS

That this House notes with concern that Social Fund funeral payments are not available if the deceased person has left their body to medical science; considers this to be a penny-pinching response to an altruistic gesture of great value to the rest of the community; notes that Ms Hazel Cameron, a disabled, single parent, had to pay for the return rail fare from London to Glasgow and for the death certificate on her father to make the arrangements for the transfer of his body to a university and eventually to travel back to collect the ashes of the remains from the crematorium; deeply regrets that all the Department of Social Security could offer was a Social Fund loan; and therefore calls on the Government to extend funeral payments to relatives in the position of Ms Cameron.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

638 

Session

1994-95

Subjects

Costs Funerals Social Fund Funeral payments

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk