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1077176

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date	25/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Cold Weather Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect on the public purse of taking into account wind-chill in determining eligibility for cold weather payments.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	David Duguid
uin	225592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>Wind chill is the perception of external temperature rather than a measured air temperature. Cold Weather Payments are designed to contribute to the additional costs of heating homes in unseasonably cold weather. As wind chill relates to skin rather than buildings, no assessment has been made of the effect of taking wind chill into account for Cold Weather Payments.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 225593 question first answered 05/03/2019 12:40:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4606 label Biography information for David Duguid

1077177

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Cold Weather Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department’s policy is on taking into account the windchill factor when determining eligibility for cold weather payments.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	David Duguid
uin	225593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>Wind chill is the perception of external temperature rather than a measured air temperature. Cold Weather Payments are designed to contribute to the additional costs of heating homes in unseasonably cold weather. As wind chill relates to skin rather than buildings, no assessment has been made of the effect of taking wind chill into account for Cold Weather Payments.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 225592 question first answered 05/03/2019 12:40:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4606 label Biography information for David Duguid