§ Mr. Ronald Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when she proposes to raise the value of the death grant to £75, thus raising its percentage of the cost of an average funeral, excluding church and cemetery fees, from its present 24 per cent. to the 1967 value of 60 per cent.; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. O'MalleyI refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge and Airdrie (Mr. Dempsey) on 9th December 1975.—[Vol. 902, c.141.]