Cold Weather Payments: Solihull

(asked on 6th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Cold Weather Payments were issued to pensioners in Solihull constituency in 2022.


Answered by
Laura Trott Portrait
Laura Trott
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 11th January 2023

The Cold Weather Payment scheme is administered at weather station level rather than at a constituency or regional level. The coverage area for each weather station is determined by the Met Office, which assesses the most appropriate weather station for each postcode area. Cold weather payments are triggered when the average temperature recorded at the weather station has been recorded as, or is forecast to be, 0°C or below over seven consecutive days, during the Cold Weather season (November to March)

The constituency of Solihull covers all or part of the following postcode areas: B14, B26, B27, B28, B90, B91, B92.

The above postcode areas are covered by the weather station Coleshill. Coleshill weather station covers the following postcode areas, in Table 1, which include constituencies other than Solihull.

Table 1 Postcode districts mapped to Weather Stations

Weather station

Postcode Districts Covered

Coleshill

B1-21, B23-38, B40, B42-50, B60-80, B90-98, CV1-12, CV21-23, CV31-35, CV37, CV47, DY1-14, LE10, WS1-15, WV1-16.

Qualifying individuals living in these postcode districts will have received a payment in respect of a seven-day period of Cold Weather.

We estimate that in the period 1 November 2022 to 06 January 2023 there were 95,000 payments made to Pension Credit recipients in this area as a whole. We are not able to break this figure down to a lower level.

For the 21/22 Cold Weather Payment season, running from 1 November 2021 to 31 March 2022, there were 0 Cold Weather Payment triggers for Coleshill Weather station.

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