Question follow-through · 20770
Winter Fuel Payment: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of pensioner poverty levels in each region following changes to the eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment.
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A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of pensioner poverty levels in each region following changes to the eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
The latest available data on pensioner poverty levels by region is published by the Department here Households below average income:Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2023 - GOV.UK On 19 November, Secretary of State wrote ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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