HC Deb 05 November 2003 vol 412 c676W
Dan Norris

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate(a) how many people in Wansdyke constituency are eligible for the winter fuel payment in 2003–04 and (b) how many people in Wansdyke constituency received it in 2002–03. [136332]

Malcolm Wicks

The information is not available in the format requested. However, such information as is available is as follows.

The number of people in Wansdyke parliamentary constituency who received a Winter Fuel Payment for winter 2002–03 was 19,940 made up of 8,965 men and 10,975 women. We expect similar figures for 2003–04.

Notes:

1. Figures are taken from the Matching Intelligence Data Analysis Service Winter

Fuels Payment 2002/03 exercise 100 per cent. data

2. Figures are rounded to the nearest five.

Source:

IAD Information Centre, 100 per cent. sample.