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1420573

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date	07/02/2022
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	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of offering people eligible for winter fuel payments the option of donating the sum they would receive to charity instead.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	119541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2022 answer text <p>Winter fuel payments give reassurance, particularly to poorer pensioners, that they can keep warm during the colder months. The department currently issues over 11 million winter fuel payments within a small delivery window. Introducing an option on the notification for customers to donate their winter fuel payment would introduce complexity to the process. Recipients are of course free to donate the payment to a charity of their choice.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 10/02/2022 16:50:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1420644

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
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	Universal Credit: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether virtual assessments will remain in-place for universal credit applicants who are classified as clinically extremely vulnerable.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	119542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2022 answer text <p>We are currently delivering health assessments through a variety of channels including face-to-face, and telephone and video assessments introduced in response to the pandemic. Whenever possible we will conduct a paper-based assessment. Any future decisions about assessment methods will be evidence-based and to ensure this we will draw on existing evidence as well as research and analysis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/02/2022 14:56:42 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy