Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Wakefield constituency and (b) Wakefield Metropolitan District Council area were in receipt of the bereavement allowance in each of the last six years.

Bereavement allowance statistics are not collated on an annualised basis, however 50 claimants were in receipt of bereavement allowance in the Parliamentary constituency of Wakefield and 160 claimants were in receipt of bereavement allowance in Wakefield Local Authority for the period ending May 2016, which is the latest quarter for which there is statistical information.

The Official Statistics for this period are available at:

http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html

http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html

For further quarterly time series statistics please refer to the resources below.

The information requested is published and available at:

http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html

Guidance for users can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance

Please note that the tabulation tool was last updated in November 2016 and will no longer be available for use after 31 March 2017. Users were informed of this in June 2016 via a statistical notice, available at the following link where you can also read more about our plans to move our statistics onto the Stat-Xplore online tool:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice

For February 2017 data, we have published additional supporting tables for each benefit apart from Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit. The supporting tables include local authority and parliamentary constituency breakdowns as well as information on key out-of-work benefits. This information can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017