Question follow-through · 2891
Fuel Poverty: Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of means testing the winter fuel payment on levels of fuel poverty in the winter of 2024-25.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of means testing the winter fuel payment on levels of fuel poverty in the winter of 2024-25.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Department has not made an assessment of the potential impact of means testing the Winter Fuel Payment on levels of fuel poverty in winter 2024-25. A statistical publication estimating the rate of fuel poverty for those in receipt of Winter Fuel Payme...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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