Luke Murphy

Luke Murphy

Labour — Basingstoke

Speaking in the House of Commons on 19 March 2025

Debate

Winter Fuel Payment

Contribution

The motion talks about ensuring that “those eligible for Pension Credit receive it”. To return to the point I made earlier, if Conservative Members were so concerned about vulnerable pensioners, why was there absolutely no movement in the take-up of pension credit under the previous Government? Some 700,000 pensioners are eligible for pension credit, but I do not remember a big campaign on that by the previous Government that made a difference—

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