HC Deb 20 December 1990 vol 183 c314W
Mr. Bernie Grant

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list those parts of the United Kingdom where the temperature fell below the Department of Social Security threshold for the payment of additional allowances for heating for pensioners and others over the weekend 8 to 10 December; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Scott

Cold weather payments are available when the average daily temperature is 0 deg. C or below for a period of seven consecutive days. This has not yet happened this winter.

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