| Heading: |
Winter Fuel Payment |
| Question ID: |
1751039 |
| UIN: |
21085 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5359 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Neil Duncan-Jordan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Neil Duncan-Jordan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential savings to the public purse of means testing the winter fuel payment. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4077 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Reynolds
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| Answering Member handle: |
emmaforwycombe
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@emmaforwycombe
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| Answer text: |
It is estimated that the changes to Winter Fuel Payments in England and Wales will save around £1.3 billion in 2024/25, rising to £1.5 billion by 2029/30. This figure has been published in the Office of Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |