Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 10685
Winter Fuel Payment
Tabled: 23 October 2024
Answered: 13 November 2024
Named DayQuestion
Sir Mel Stride
Conservative — Central Devon
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she made a request to the Social Security Advisory Committee to expedite their consideration of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payments Regulations 2024 before she invoked the urgency provision.
Answer
Emma ReynoldsThe urgency procedure was invoked as a means of making the necessary Exchequer savings in the current financial year, as the Regulations needed to come into force on 16 September 2024 (in time for the qualifying week for Winter Fuel Payments this winter)....
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