Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Philip Hollobone and Laura Trott

Monday 6th March 2023 Commons Chamber

[Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)]

13. How many people have received the pensioner cost of living payment in (a) Kettering constituency, (b) north Northamptonshire and (c) England.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Laura Trott)]

In 2021-22, almost 18,000 pensioners in Kettering, over 60,000 pensioners in north Northamptonshire and more than 9 million pensioners in England received a winter fuel payment. We estimate that similar numbers will have received the £300 pensioner cost of living payment in 2022-23.

[Mr Hollobone]

Will those 18,000 pensioners in receipt of the pensioner cost of living payment also receive additional support, such as the £400 energy bill discount, the £150 council tax rebate, the £150 disability cost of living payment and the £150 warm home discount? Will they also benefit from the energy price guarantee, saving a typical household £900 a year?

[Laura Trott]

My hon. Friend is right in this, as in so many things.