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Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Responses to Freedom of Information requests on Equality Impact Assessments produced for targeting Winter Fuel Payment, published on 13 September 2024, for what reason the assessme

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
22 Oct 2024
Answer
22 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Responses to Freedom of Information requests on Equality Impact Assessments produced for targeting Winter Fuel Payment, published on 13 September 2024, for what reason the assessme

  2. 22 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The assessments undertaken by the Department and HM Treasury do not contradict each other. They are on a different basis. HM Treasury analysis is based on Census 2011 data and compares pensioners to the non-pensioner population. Whereas the Department’s a...

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