To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of households in (a) Cheadle constituency and (b) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council area which will be eligible for cold weather payments if the temperature falls below the level which triggers payment of the allowance in 2008-09. (242535)

[holding answer 11 December 2008]: The estimated number of households eligible for cold weather payments is not available by local authority or parliamentary constituency, but only by weather station.