Cold Weather Payments: South Wales
(asked on 3rd February 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 have been issued in the SA13 postcode in each since 2019.
The Cold Weather Payment scheme is administered at weather station level rather than any other standard GB geography such as postcode or constituency 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, 0oC or below over seven consecutive days, during the Cold Weather season (November to March).
The Postcode SA13 falls under the weather station St. Athan. St. Athan also covers the following postcode areas, in Table 1, which include postcodes other than SA13.
Table 1 Postcode districts mapped to Weather Stations | |
Weather station | Postcode Districts Covered |
St. Athan | CF3, CF5, CF10-11, CF14-15, CF23-24, CF31-36, CF61-64, CF71-72, NP10, NP18-20, SA10-13. |
Qualifying individuals living in these postcode districts will have received a payment in respect of a seven- day period of Cold Weather.
From 2019/20 up to the current season, 2022/23, there have been 0 Cold Weather Payment triggers for St. Athan weather station. Thus, 0 payments have been made to postcodes within St. Athan weather station since 2019, as outlined in Table 2.
Table 2 Number of payments made to postcodes covering St. Athan weather station | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Number of Payments made | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |