Early day motion · EDM 384 · 3 Nov 1997

COLD WEATHER PAYMENTS

Tabled by Mrs Ray Michie (Liberal Democrat) 47 signatures

The motion

That this House believes that taking into account windchill factor would make cold weather payments fairer and would target help where it is most needed; believes that this Government should honour pledges it made when in Opposition and set up a pilot scheme testing windchill factor and its applicability to cold weather payments; and supports a wide-ranging review of the benefits system, especially the rate of benefit take-up by the oldest and poorest pensioners in the coldest and windiest parts of the country.

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