Energy: Winter Fuel Payment Debate
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Lord Palmer
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(12 years, 11 months ago)
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Lord Freud
My Lords, as the noble Lord knows, all money is fungible. This is a matter of psychology rather than funding. If people find it convenient to look at money as being in separate packets and give money in a particular packet to a particular charity, that is a very excellent thing to happen, particularly if it encourages charitable giving more generally.
Lord Palmer
My Lords, is it fair that this tax will be the same whether you live on the south coast of England or the north coast of Scotland?
Lord Freud
My Lords, I think it depends on what side of the country you live. I understand that the Mull of Kintyre is rather warmer than East Anglia, so I think that what the noble Lord suggests would be a pretty complicated thing to do.