Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Freud on 15 January (HL Deb, col GC 144), what is their estimate of the annual cost of overseas healthcare and other benefits for survivors’ dependents if the new Bereavement Support Payment is treated as a survivor pension under European Union law.[HL5456]
Answer
The information requested is not available. DWP has to date not made such an assessment.