Oeddech chi'n golygu Winter feel allowance?
Andrew Bowie: I will not detain the Committee long, but I want to express the Conservatives’ support for the Liberal Democrat amendment, primarily because of our concern about the impact of the removal of the winter fuel allowance from so many pensioners this winter, and the fact that the warm homes plan, as welcome as it is, will not be up and running until next spring, which leaves considerable concern...
Chris Philp: ...now and explicitly commit that this will never happen again? The Chagos proposal is shocking: paying—yes, paying —to give away sovereign territory to a country allied with China, which might be allowed to place military or intelligence assets near the Diego Garcia base; downgrading a sovereign base to merely a leased base, when leases can of course be terminated; and ignoring the...
Emma Reynolds: ...retirement. Given the substantial pressures faced by the public finances this year and next, the Government has had to make hard choices to bring the public finances back under control. Winter Fuel Payments will continue to be paid to pensioner households that need it most, that is those receiving Pension Credit or certain other income-related benefits. They will continue to be worth...
Carla Denyer: ...about guarantors, and I would also like to see that issue addressed in this Bill. Citizens Advice reports that almost half of private renters are living in homes plagued with cold, damp or mould. Winter fuel bills are due to go up by 10%, and the winter fuel allowance is being cut for millions of pensioners. It is good to hear that the Government’s regulations will apply to social...
Vikki Slade: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help (a) pensioners who will not receive Winter Fuel Allowance and (b) other people with disabilities who (i) need to run equipment through the winter and (ii) have a condition which makes them susceptible to the effects of the cold, damp weather.
Bobby Dean: ...less likely to claim the benefits that they are entitled to. Has the Government Equalities Office made any assessment of the potential disproportion-ate impact on disabled households of cutting the winter fuel allowance?
Luke Taylor: ...Park, Cheam to Belmont and everywhere in between. I hope I am already going some way to repaying the trust they have put in me by voting to end the two-child benefit cap, voting to save the winter fuel payment, and already helping hundreds of them with issues and concerns through my office. To the people who did not vote for me, or did not vote at all, who have lost all faith in politics...
Maggie Chapman: ...more accurately described, I think, as a cost of greed outrage. As the Women Against State Pension Inequality—the WASPI women—will attest, women will be disproportionately hit by the cut to the winter fuel allowance. There are other characteristics too—other forms of inequality that shape the probability and intensity of poverty. People who are disabled, racially...
Desmond Swayne: Would it not have been better to put that proper package of support in place before the Government withdrew the winter fuel allowance from so many pensioners?
Dr Caroline Johnson: ...NHS workforce plan at all. My constituency mailbag, no doubt much like that of Members across the House, is full of letters from elderly people who are frightened that their homes will be cold this winter, and that they will become ill, or perhaps even die, as a result. It is notable—again, perhaps this answers my second question—that despite being published two months after the...
Desmond Swayne: How does the cost of leasing compare with the savings that the Government are making on the winter fuel allowance?
Mel Stride: In the general election, the Labour party promised that it had no plans to means-test the winter fuel allowance, yet we learn that millions of pensioners are to be affected. Indeed, in 2017 the right hon. Lady’s party produced an analysis suggesting that around 4,000 pensioners would die prematurely were this policy to be brought into effect. Does she stand by that figure of around 4,000?...
Mel Stride: On 10 September, two days before recess, I led a debate in this Chamber, secured by the Conservative party, on the winter fuel allowance. The right hon. Lady spoke just now about transparency, but there was no equality impact assessment made available for that debate. Indeed, on 30 August, by way of a written question, my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans)...
Keith Brown: ...at how to increase housing. How can we increase housing for veterans, which is a very important area? We do not have the ability to meet the demands of all veterans. How do we combat the Brexit-fuelled inflation in labour costs? Those are some of the things that the other parties could have discussed in this debate, but they were not discussed. Instead, it has been the usual...
Alan Robinson: ...a first appointment. I have no doubt that we would be staring at even starker figures had it not been for the £10 million that was secured by my party via the confidence-and-supply agreement that allowed additional investment in mental health services over a five-year period. As has been stated on the Floor many times, without timely interventions, people's conditions will descend into...
Alison Johnstone: ...and greater social and environmental problems”; calls on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to replace the current austerity fiscal rules that the UK Government is operating under, in order to allow for greater investment to renew and enhance public infrastructure and deliver projects that support the transition to net zero; believes that the UK Government should reverse its cut to the...
Ivan McKee: ...Labour leader of the City of Edinburgh Council, in the same city that Daniel Johnson represents, has written to the UK Government to ask it to end the two-child cap and the cuts to the pensioner winter fuel allowance. While he was at it, on the subject of economic growth, he has asked it to reverse the planned cancellation of the £800 million investment in the exascale supercomputer at...
Carál Ní Chuilín: ...is another outstanding commitment that we have been waiting for. Certainly, the current British Government appear to be following in the footsteps of their Tory partners. Their announcements on the winter fuel payments, not scrapping the two-child benefit cap and all the rest just do not augur well for people who are living in already challenging circumstances. Poverty levels in the...
Steve Aiken: ...remain. However, based on the city deals debacle, what real confidence can there be that that additional funding will be received, especially given that the Government are quite happy to remove the winter fuel allowance while their members cloth themselves in freebie suits? I was going to make a joke about glasses, but I am wearing a pair. I paid for mine, by the way. Thirdly — I say...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on pensioners of the withdrawal of the Winter Fuel Allowance.
