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Winter Fuel Payment

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 12 February 2025UIN 28612

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of Winter Fuel Payments that were spent through (a) direct and (b) indirect taxation in 2023-24.

Answered by Torsten Bell

The department does not hold information on how Winter Fuel Payments were spent in 2023–24.

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