Question follow-through · 2476

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment in each Parliamentary constituency; and what estimate she has made of the number of people that will be eligible after the proposed means testing

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 30 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2024
Answer: 6 Sept 2024 · 38 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment in each Parliamentary constituency; and what estimate she has made of the number of people that will be eligible after the proposed means testing
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Sept 2024
Answer published
Annual statistics relating to Winter Fuel Payment recipients are routinely published. The number of recipients within each parliamentary constituency is available at the following link:winter-fuel-payments-caseload-2022-to-2023.ods (live.com) The tab &quo...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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