§ Mr. David Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many pensioners in (a) Scotland, (b) Strathclyde region, (c) Glasgow district and (d) Shettleston constituency applied for severe weather payments in the current year; and how many applications were (i) accepted and (ii) refused.
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§ Mr. MajorInformation on the number of claims by pensioners for exceptionally cold weather payments is not available.
Statistics are being maintained on the total number of exceptionally cold weather payments made, the amount of those payments and the number refused, and these will be published in due course.