Question follow-through · 3128

Means-tested Benefits and Winter Fuel Payment: North West Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in North West Norfolk constituency (a) received winter fuel payments and (b) were eligible for (i) pension credit and (ii) other means tested benefits in 2023-4.

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, how many people in North West Norfolk constituency (a) received winter fuel payments and (b) were eligible for (i) pension credit and (ii) other means tested benefits in 2023-4.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
Annual statistics on the number of Winter Fuel Payment recipients and households by local authority and by Westminster parliamentary constituency are made publicly available via GOV.UK. The latest release contains data on individual and household level st...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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