Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 63246

Winter Fuel Payment

Tabled: 26 June 2025
Answered: 1 July 2025

Question

Katie Lam

ConservativeWeald of Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of (a) households that entered fuel poverty and (b) excess winter deaths in 2024/25 following changes to the eligibility criteria for the W

Answer

Torsten Bell
In the latest annual fuel poverty statistics published in March 2025, it is estimated that changes to Winter Fuel Payment eligibility did not affect the rate of fuel poverty in England in 2024, as measured by the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) m...

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