Question follow-through · 4789

Winter Fuel Payment: Meriden and Solihull East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Meriden and Solihull East constituency will be impacted by planned changes to winter fuel payments.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
12 Sept 2024
Answer
18 Sept 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Meriden and Solihull East constituency will be impacted by planned changes to winter fuel payments.

  2. 12 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    Please note that following boundary changes to Parliamentary Constituencies, data on Meriden and Solihull East constituency is not explicitly available/ published. To obtain the above figure, data on the previous Solihull constituency and previous Meriden...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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