| Heading: |
Winter Fuel Payment |
| Question ID: |
1811860 |
| UIN: |
HL8385 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-11 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4970 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Weir of Ballyholme
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| Asking Member handle: |
LordWeirDUP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@LordWeirDUP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what the Barnett consequentials are for Northern Ireland arising from the expansion of the provision of entitlement to winter fuel payments for pensioners in England and Wales. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4559 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Livermore
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Livermore
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
From 2025-26, all individuals over the State Pension age in England and Wales with an income below £35,000 will be eligible to benefit from the Winter Fuel Payment. Pensioners in England and Wales above this threshold can either opt out or will be liable ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |