| Heading: |
Winter Fuel Payment: Death |
| Question ID: |
1791766 |
| UIN: |
43680 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5268 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Iqbal Mohamed
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| Asking Member handle: |
iqbalmohamedMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@iqbalmohamedMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish an assessment of the potential impact of the decision to means test the winter fuel payment on the number of excess deaths in winter 2024-25. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-08 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5069 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Torsten Bell
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| Answering Member handle: |
TorstenBell
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@TorstenBell
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| Answer text: |
Targeting Winter Fuel Payments was a difficult decision, but the right decision given the challenging public finances. The Government is, however, protecting pensioners on the lowest incomes. Winter Fuel Payments will continue to be paid to pensioner hous... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |