Torsten Bell corrected the Commons record on Winter Fuel Payments: Pensioner Poverty
Torsten Bell made the correction and printed in Hansard's Written Corrections on 10 February 2025. The figure £400 in the original became £4,200 in the correction. Altogether 4 words differ between the two versions.
The question
What assessment she has made of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on levels of pensioner poverty.
Original and corrected words
Struck through: original only. Bold: correction only.
| Original | Corrected |
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| This Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around | This Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around £4,200 a year on average to those eligible. |
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Receipt
| Read from | https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/debates/debate/37621E6B-BCC9-4A3E-BBC0-70E47F425412.json |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
| SHA-256 | ee0da9b3bcb2a73e94ef116869472db498752ca0395e6b845e1b672b712122a3 |