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Emma Reynolds: ...that local authorities support our national Pension Credit Awareness campaign and help us reach those eligible pensioners who have not claimed Pension Credit, so they continue to receive an annual Winter Fuel Payment. Building on last year’s ‘Invitation to Claim’ trial, the Department will be directly contacting approximately 120,000 pensioner households who are in receipt of Housing...
Miatta Fahnbulleh: ...of Durham and County Durham. We believe that the only way to protect billpayers permanently and to guarantee our energy security is to speed up our transition away from volatile, foreign, fossil fuel markets towards clean homegrown energy. In the short-term, we are continuing to deliver the Warm Home Discount which provides a £150 rebate off energy bills to eligible low-income...
Luke Evans: ...the Minister for Energy and energy firms on Wednesday 28 August 2024, what assessment he has made of the [a] potential impact of the costs of energy on pensioners who will not be eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment in Winter 2024-25 and [ii] adequacy of the steps taken by energy firms to support pensioners in advance of the eligibility changes for the payment.
Marie McNair: ...event next month—an event to which they all come, ready to help our communities. The fact that such groups must exist in this day and age is appalling, and the UK welfare regime that fuels their existence needs a radical overhaul to make it fit for purpose. So far, unfortunately, there has just been more of the same. Indeed, for many pensioners, things are now getting even...
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: ...Reform and Governance Act 2010—vote on the treaty itself? Can she tell the House when that will happen? Members across the House are horrified by the Government’s callous plan to strip winter fuel payments from most pensioners, including 84% of those in poverty. The Government refused to provide the equalities impact assessment in response to a written parliamentary question from one...
Stephen Gethins: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changing eligibility requirements for the winter fuel payment on people with disabilities.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse of winter fuel payments to overseas residents was in 2023/24.
Emma Reynolds: ...support to pensioners on a low income. We know there are low-income pensioners who aren’t claiming Pension Credit, and we urge those people to apply. This will passport them to receive a Winter Fuel Payment alongside other benefits – hundreds of pounds that could really help them. We will ensure that the poorest pensioners get the support they need. The Secretary of State and Deputy...
Luke Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the impact assessment for the changes to the Winter Fuel Payment regulations.
John Swinney: ...’Kane raised with me the fact that we are at the 100 days moment. It is important that, for completeness, we talk about all the things that have happened in those 100 days. We have had the cut to winter fuel payments for pensioners, which nobody expected to come from a Labour Government, but it has been prepared to protect the rich and punish the poor. What on earth has the Labour Party...
Lord Hannan of Kingsclere: ...of £73 billion per year of extra spending. Think for a second about that: £73 billion per year. Think of the rows we have in this Chamber about the relatively trivial sums involved in the winter fuel payments or VAT on school fees. Why is that happening? There are structural reasons why there is greater productivity when there is a profit motive; I think we all accept that. But why is...
David Simmonds: ...in private schools than in the state sector, the Government cannot supply an equalities impact assessment for their policy on VAT on schools. There seems to be a similar trend emerging with the winter fuel payments, and with the Renters’ Rights Bill; the Government say that it is very important that we get the policy right, but cannot supply evidence that they have properly considered...
Emma Reynolds: ...are asking that local authorities support our national Pension Credit campaign and help us reach those eligible pensioners who have not claimed Pension Credit, so they continue to receive an annual Winter Fuel Payment. We will continue to work with external partners, local authorities and the devolved governments to boost the take-up of Pension Credit.
Rebecca Paul: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to eligibility for Winter Fuel Payments on pensioners in Reigate constituency.
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...
Alison Johnstone: ...14, Abstentions 0. Motion agreed to, That the Parliament agrees in this Challenge Poverty Week that the UK Government must reverse the introduction of means testing for the Winter Fuel Payment.
Shirley-Anne Somerville: I am pleased that we are having this debate about the UK Government’s decision to restrict the eligibility for winter fuel payment, because that has had a devastating consequence for the planned launch of the pension age winter heating payment. Recent research by Age UK shows that, across the UK, 1.6 million older people who are living in poverty will lose their winter fuel...
