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444788

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date	13/01/2016
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: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the results were of temperature tests to determine eligibility to receive winter fuel allowance of people living abroad in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	22383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The winter fuel payment eligibility criteria for people who normally live in the EEA, was changed for winter 2015-16. A temperature criterion was introduced by the DWP using information from a report it commissioned from the Met Office. This report showed the average winter temperature data for each EEA country and Switzerland and for the regions of the UK. The Met Office report was produced in 2012 and used information from a dataset for the reference period 1961-1990 available through the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.</p><br /><p>The average winter temperature in the warmest part of the UK, the South West, is 5.6<sup>o</sup>C. This point is the basis for the changes made to the winter fuel payment eligibility criteria. People living in countries with an average winter temperature of no more than 5.6<sup>o</sup>C, or a temperature that is close enough to that to be statistically equivalent, are eligible for a winter fuel payment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/01/2016 12:31:55 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

444789

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many temperature tests there were to determine eligibility to receive winter fuel allowance of people living abroad in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	22384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The winter fuel payment eligibility criteria for people who normally live in the EEA, was changed for winter 2015-16. A temperature criterion was introduced by the DWP using information from a report it commissioned from the Met Office. This report showed the average winter temperature data for each EEA country and Switzerland and for the regions of the UK. The Met Office report was produced in 2012 and used information from a dataset for the reference period 1961-1990 available through the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.</p><br /><p>The average winter temperature in the warmest part of the UK, the South West, is 5.6<sup>o</sup>C. This point is the basis for the changes made to the winter fuel payment eligibility criteria. People living in countries with an average winter temperature of no more than 5.6<sup>o</sup>C, or a temperature that is close enough to that to be statistically equivalent, are eligible for a winter fuel payment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/01/2016 12:35:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith