Question follow-through · 2858

Winter Fuel Payment: Gosport

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of households in Gosport constituency who will lose their winter fuel payment.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 30 Aug 2024
Target answer date: 3 Sept 2024
Answer: 12 Sept 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of households in Gosport constituency who will lose their winter fuel payment.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
The estimated number of pensioner households in Gosport constituency who will lose Winter Fuel Payments is 13,577. This is based on Feb-24 Pension Credit statistics and 22/23 Winter Fuel Payment statistics, (sources below). The estimation is calculated by...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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