Question follow-through · 48948

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the accuracy of her Department’s impact assessment on the decision to remove the winter fuel payment.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 29 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 6 May 2025
Answer: 6 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the accuracy of her Department’s impact assessment on the decision to remove the winter fuel payment.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
In line with the requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty, an Equality Analysis was produced and considered as part of the ministerial decision-making process. This was published on 13 September and is available online: Equality Impact Assessments ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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