Cold Weather Payments: East Riding

Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 24 October 2013.

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Photo of Greg Knight Greg Knight Conservative, East Yorkshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate his Department has made of the number of people eligible for cold weather payments in East Riding.

Photo of Steve Webb Steve Webb The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

The estimates for the number of people eligible for cold weather payments in each weather station area in the UK will not be available until the end of October. The estimates are produced by a scan of the systems immediately prior to the start of the cold weather payment season, commencing 1 November 2013. The scan is conducted as close as possible to the start of the cold weather season to best represent the most accurate number of eligible customers.

The postcodes for East Riding are covered by Leconfield, Linton on Ouse and Sheffield weather stations. As the weather station areas are based on the climate of the relevant postcodes, they do not align with any standard regional mapping. When the estimates become available, I will place a copy in the House of Commons Library, showing the regions that overlap with each weather station.

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