Mentions:
1: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) parents can now afford headstones, which would not have been affordable if they had had to pay for the funerals - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) Fair Funerals UK estimates that the average cost of a cremation is £3,596, while that of a burial is - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018, which was enacted last September. - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) of the all-party parliamentary group on funerals, so he will continue to be active on this. - Speech Link
5: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) will touch on that in a minute.I entirely accept that for those dealing with the terrible burden of bereavement - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Cryer (LAB - Leyton and Wanstead) Both Waltham Forest and Redbridge—I cover six wards in Waltham Forest and two and one third in Redbridge—have - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) We have all been to too many funerals, as churches mourn one of their own.At every primary school I visit - Speech Link
3: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) them before and after school and at the weekends, to protect themselves—and then find themselves using - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) experienced a traumatic bereavement. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (LAB - Life peer) minds and souls of men and women like us. - Speech Link
2: Albert Owen (LAB - Ynys Môn) there were no proper funerals to honour them.A lot of hon. - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) or to find any peace in their bereavement by visiting their graves. - Speech Link
4: John Redwood (CON - Wokingham) and so many people maimed and incapacitated. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Amess (CON - Southend West) In spite of that—I say this as a member of the all-party parliamentary group for funerals and bereavement—there - Speech Link
2: Neil Gray (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) for funerals—burial and cremation fees—and she was right to do so. - Speech Link
3: Neil Gray (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Let us get it right and allow people to give dignity to their loved ones at times of bereavement. - Speech Link
4: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) on the quality and the standards of funerals. - Speech Link
5: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) also supporting the private Member’s Bill on parental bereavement leave and pay for parents.I understand - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) The person who has done all the heavy lifting and all the legwork, and who has given all the care and - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) Examples have been given in the Supreme Court, and in many social posts and blogs, and in everything - Speech Link
3: None They held the child in their arms, had photos, took footprints and had formal funerals, yet in the eyes - Speech Link
4: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) We had a naming ceremony for her in a room in the hospital—it was not a bereavement suite, because this - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) However, recent press and media coverage has revealed the shocking reality of public health funerals, - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) Friend alluded to, the Government have acted to address the financial pressures that death and bereavement - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) I also thank the National Bereavement Alliance, Together for Short Lives and Bliss for their briefings - Speech Link
2: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We have to go back only 150 years to remember a time when more than half of all funerals were those of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) advice including emails and text messages, from 11 May 2010 up to and including 1 May 2018, to and between - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) And the Windrush community and its ancestors know what hostile and compliance mean. - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) We all know the consequences: homelessness, detention, depression, mental illness, suicide and bereavement - Speech Link
4: Mohammad Yasin (LAB - Bedford) heartbreaking stories of British citizens not being allowed to leave the country to attend parents’ funerals - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) Data security and innovation go hand in hand, and this move will benefit customers and all responsible - Speech Link
2: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) Just after suffering a recent bereavement, I was in touch with a nationally known undertaker. - Speech Link
3: Margot James (CON - Stourbridge) We have touched on various issues—children and social media, artificial intelligence and cyber-resilience—and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Antoinette Sandbach (LDEM - Eddisbury) Lives, the National Bereavement Alliance and the Rainbow Trust. - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) two weeks’ paid bereavement leave and one additional day dedicated for the child’s funeral. - Speech Link
3: None leave and receive parental bereavement pay. - Speech Link
4: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) to meet those costs, particularly for funerals. - Speech Link