Winter Fuel Payment
Debate between Joe Robertson and Caroline Nokes(1 week, 3 days ago)
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Luke Murphy
The motion talks about ensuring that
“those eligible for Pension Credit receive it”.
To return to the point I made earlier, if Conservative Members were so concerned about vulnerable pensioners, why was there absolutely no movement in the take-up of pension credit under the previous Government? Some 700,000 pensioners are eligible for pension credit, but I do not remember a big campaign on that by the previous Government that made a difference—
Madam Deputy Speaker (Caroline Nokes)
Order. The hon. Gentleman’s intervention is far too long.
Joe Robertson
I thank the hon. Gentleman for drawing attention to his own Government’s promise to increase the take-up of pension credit. After the past winter, there are still 750,000 pensioners who have not taken it up, so he should not speak with any pride or seek to deflect to previous Governments when his own Government have withdrawn the winter fuel payment and there are still 750,000 eligible pensioners who are not receiving pension credit.