| Heading: |
Winter Fuel Payment |
| Question ID: |
1822942 |
| UIN: |
67722 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-14 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5277 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Graham Leadbitter
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| Asking Member handle: |
grahamsnp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@grahamsnp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has produced an impact assessment on the potential impact of changing the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment on trends in levels of excess deaths. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-17 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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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: |
In line with the obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty, the Department has conducted an equality analysis on expanding eligibility of the Winter Fuel Payment in England and Wales and have considered the impacts of this policy. The Government w... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |