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Winter Fuel Payments: North East Region

Volume 458: debated on Tuesday 13 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency and (b) Sunderland City Council area received winter fuel payments in each of the last five years. (125298)

The information is in the following table. Information on households receiving a winter fuel payment is available only by constituency and local authority from winter 2002-03. Figures for winter 2006-07 are not yet available but we expect the numbers to be similar to those for winter 2005-06.

Household payments made

Houghton and Washington, East constituency

Sunderland local authority

2002-03

12,090

40,470

2003-04

12,230

40,660

2004-05

12,450

41,220

2005-06

12,570

41,580

Notes:

1. Figures rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Parliamentary constituencies and local authorities are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS postcode directory.

3. Any residence found to have four or more occupants aged 60 and over is not included in the household figures as it is assumed to be a care home.

Source:

Information directorate 100 per cent. data.