Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Wes Streeting and Jerome Mayhew

Tuesday 15th October 2024 Commons Chamber

[Jerome Mayhew (Broadland and Fakenham) (Con)]

Labour’s cut to the winter fuel payment will cause 262,000 cold pensioners to seek NHS treatment, according to the End Fuel Poverty Coalition. Do the Government agree with those figures, and if not, what are their own estimates?

[Wes Streeting]

The decision on the winter fuel allowance is not one that the Government took lightly, but we inherited a £22 billion hole in the nation’s finances. We continue to stand behind vulnerable households by increasing the state pension with the triple lock, delivering the warm home discount and extending the household support fund to support the most vulnerable pensioners.