Question follow-through · 69970
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff will be required to administer the Winter Fuel Payment in 2025-26.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2025 · 44 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff will be required to administer the Winter Fuel Payment in 2025-26.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government announced in June 2025 that the Winter Fuel Payment will be made universal in England and Wales from winter 2025. Subsequently, the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive have confirmed that they will mirror the approach for Eng...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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