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Winter Fuel Allowance

Volume 407: debated on Monday 16 June 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Scotland received the winter fuel allowance for the 2002–03 winter, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency; and what percentage these figures represent of the total numbers eligible for the allowance in each local authority and constituency. [117100]

Around one million people in Scotland received a winter fuel payment for the winter of 2002–03. Information broken down by constituency and local authority is not yet available but figures for 2001–02 are given in the tables. Most, but not all, people aged 60 and over are eligible for a winter fuel payment. The majority of entitled people receive their payments automatically but some have to claim and, because of this, we cannot provide a percentage of eligible people who received a payment.

Winter fuel payments for Scotland by parliamentary constituency winter 2001–02
Thousand
All994.4
Aberdeen Central11.6
Aberdeen North12.0
Aberdeen South15.5
Airdrie and Shotts13.4
Angus16.4
Argyll and Bute15.4
Ayr16.8
Banff and Buchan14.7
Caithness Sunderland and Easter Ross11.6
Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley17.9
Central Fife14.5
Clydebank and Milngavie14.4
Clydesdale15.8
Coatbridge and Chryston12.2
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth10.0
Cunninghame North16.3
Cunninghame South11.5
Dumbarton13.8
Dumfries18.1
Dundee East16.0
Dundee West14.5
Dunfermline East13.1
Dunfermline West12.3
East Kilbride16.3
East Lothian16.0
Eastwood17.8
Edinburgh Central12.0
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh15.8
Edinburgh North and Leigh12.1
Edinburgh Pentlands14.2
Edinburgh South14.2
Edinburgh West17.5
Falkirk East14.3
FalkirkWest14.0
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale17.1
Glasgow Anniesland13.9
Glasgow Baillieston11.4
Glasgow Cathcart12.1
Glasgow Govan10.1
Glasgow Kelvin9.7
Glasgow Maryhill11.2
Glasgow Pollok13.1
Glasgow Rutherglen13.2
Glasgow Shettleston11.4
Glasgow Springburn13.2
Gordon14.2
Greenock and Inverclyde13.0
Hamilton North and Bellshill12.0
Hamilton South10.8
Inverness East Nairn and Lochaber17.1
Kilmarnock and Loudoun15.6
Kirkcaldy14.1
Winter fuel payments for Scotland by parliamentary constituency winter 2001–02
Thousand
Linlithgow12.7
Livingston11.2
Midlothian12.4
Moray15.9
Motherwell and Wishaw14.2
North East Fife16.3
North Tayside18.9
Ochil13.6
Orkney and Shetland8.0
Paisley North12.4
Paisley South14.1
Perth17.2
Ross Skye and Inverness West14.7
Roxburgh and Berwickshire14.4
Stirling13.9
Strathkelvin and Bearsden16.3
Tweeddale Ettrick and Lauderdale13.5
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine13.5
West Renfrewshire11.8
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar6.4

Note:

Figures are in thousands and have been rounded to the nearest hundred.

Figures may not sum due to rounding.

Source:

Matching Intelligence Data Analysis Service winter fuels payment 2001–02 exercise

Winter fuel payments by local authority in Scotland 2001–02

Thousand

All996.4
Aberdeen City39.1
Aberdeenshire40.7
Angus23.9
Argyll and Bute20.5
City of Edinburgh82.7
Clackmannanshire9.0
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar6.3
Dumfries and Galloway35.2
Dundee City30.5
East Ayrshire24.0
East Dumbartonshire22.0
East Lothian19.2
East Renfrewshire17.8
Falkirk28.3
Fife70.2
Glasgow City108.1
Highland43.3
Inverclyde17.3
Midlothian15.4
Moray17.6
North Ayrshire27.8
North Lanarkshire57.0
Orkney Islands4.2
Perth and Kinross30.5
Renfrewshire34.0
Shetland Isles3.8
South Ayrshire26.4
South Lanarkshire58.2
Stirling16.6
The Scottish Borders24.9
West Dumbartonshire18.2
West Lothian23.8

Note:

Figures are in thousands and rounded to the nearest hundred.

Figures may not sum due to rounding.

Source:

Matching Intelligence Data Analysis Service winter fuels payment 2001–02 exercise 100 per cent. data.