Winter Fuel Payment

HC Deb 16 September 2003 vol 410 c700W

Kevin Brennan

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in(a) Wales, (b) Cardiff and (c) Cardiff, West will be eligible for Winter Fuel Payments in 2003–04. [129522]

Mr. Pond

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the table.

The number of people who received a 2002–03 Winter Fuel Payment was:

	All	Men	Women
Wales	629,025	279,860	349,170
Cardiff West Constituency	14,135	6,135	8,000
Cardiff Local Authority	54,115	23,555	30,560

Notes

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest five.

2. Figures taken from the Matching Intelligence Data Analysis Service Winter Fuels

Payment 2002–03 exercise.

Source:

IAD Information Centre, 100 per cent. sample.

We would expect the figures for 2003–04 to be similar.