Winter Fuel Payments
Scotland
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department paid out in winter fuel allowance to people in Scotland in each of the last three financial years.
David Mundell (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scotland; Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, Conservative)
In the last three financial years the Department for Work and Pensions paid the following amounts to recipients of winter fuel payments in Scotland:
| £ | |
| 2008-09 | 236,000,000 |
| 2009-10 | 240,000,000 |
| 2010-11 | 240,000,000 |
The information is available in the document "Winter Fuel Payment recipients 2010-11 by Parliamentary Constituencies and Gender (All)". This is available in the Commons Library and on the following link: