Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance has been to the public purse in each of the last five years.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Answers to both the cost and how many women were in receipt of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance in each of the last five years can be found in the “Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2017”.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2017
For what the cost of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance has been to the public purse in each of the last five years please refer to Table 1a, Expenditure by benefit (nominal terms) or Table 1b, Expenditure by benefit (real terms prices).
For how many women were in receipt of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance in each of the last five years please refer to Table 1c, Caseloads by benefits.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women were in receipt of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance in each of the last five years.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Answers to both the cost and how many women were in receipt of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance in each of the last five years can be found in the “Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2017”.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2017
For what the cost of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance has been to the public purse in each of the last five years please refer to Table 1a, Expenditure by benefit (nominal terms) or Table 1b, Expenditure by benefit (real terms prices).
For how many women were in receipt of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance in each of the last five years please refer to Table 1c, Caseloads by benefits.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families without children aged below the school leaving age are in receipt of the bereavement support payment.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However the Department does monitor requests we receive for new statistics and consider whether we can produce and release analysis that will helpfully inform public debate. The Department is therefore looking at this issue with a view to seeing what statistics could be produced on a regular basis.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families with children aged below the school leaving age are in receipt of the bereavement support payment; and how many such families have children below the age of (a) 11 and (b) five.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However the Department does monitor requests we receive for new statistics and consider whether we can produce and release analysis that will helpfully inform public debate. The Department is therefore looking at this issue with a view to seeing what statistics could be produced on a regular basis.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families are in receipt of the new bereavement support payment.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However the Department does monitor requests we receive for new statistics and consider whether we can produce and release analysis that will helpfully inform public debate. The Department is therefore looking at this issue with a view to seeing what statistics could be produced on a regular basis.