HC Deb 18 May 1979 vol 967 c13W
Mr. Golding

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will now announce an increase in the burial grant.

Mr. Prentice

The Government's first priority must be to get the country's economy right. In the meantime, the question of the level of the death grant must take its place among the many other matters which we shall be considering when the time is appropriate.