Question follow-through · 5774
Winter Fuel Payment: Reigate
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to eligibility for Winter Fuel Payments on pensioners in Reigate constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 9 Oct 2024 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to eligibility for Winter Fuel Payments on pensioners in Reigate constituency.
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Pension Credit data that is used is based on the 2010 Westminster Parliamentary constituencies, not 2024, in order to be comparable with the Winter Fuel Payments statistics. It is estimated that around 17,000 people in Reigate constituency will be aff...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Winter Fuel Payment: War Widow(er)s
7 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting war (a) widows and (b) widowers from changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment.