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Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to the winter fuel payment on recent trends in the level of economic growth.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 5 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 10 Feb 2025
Answer: 12 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to the winter fuel payment on recent trends in the level of economic growth.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
It is not possible to attribute changes in consumer spending or economic growth to any changes to Winter Fuel Payments. It is not possible to disentangle these from other much larger factors that could affect economic growth or consumption.

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