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Written question asked by Alan Milburn (Labour) on Thursday, 12 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 February 2009. It was answered by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Labour) on Thursday, 5 March 2009 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Fuel Poverty

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his most recent estimate is of the number of households in (a) Darlington constituency, (b) County Durham and (c) England in which more than one individual receives the winter fuel allowance.
Answer

The information requested is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table that follows.The following table shows the total number of individuals who received a winter fuel payment and those who received a shared payment. Figures are for winter 2006-07, the latest year for which figures are available.

Total number of payments Shared payments
Darlington Constituency 17,760 7,780
County Durham 105,610 47,330
England 10,028,780 4,732,410
Notes:
1. A shared payment is made if there is more than one person entitled in a household. If however, an entitled person is receiving pension credit, income-based jobseeker's allowance or income support then their payment is not shared. in these cases that person receives a full payment.
2. Figures from are rounded to the nearest 10.
3. Parliamentary constituencies and counties are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS postcode directory.
Source:
Information directorate 100 per cent. data.

We expect that similar numbers of individuals will receive shared winter fuel payments in 2008-09.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
488 c1792W; 258258
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Winter fuel payment
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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