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Winter Fuel Payments: Appeals

Volume 457: debated on Monday 5 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many appeal tribunals there were on winter fuel payment application refusals in each of the last three years; and how many appeals were upheld. (123598)

The information is in the following table.

Winter fuel payments appeal tribunals

Appeals heard by tribunal

Appeals upheld by tribunal

2003-04

504

4

2004-05

315

5

2005-06

28

2

Total

847

11

Source: Winter Fuel Payment Centre Records, February 2007