Viral Diseases
Commons · Question 30326 · Tabled 10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2025 to Question 25535 on Viral Diseases, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on the number of cases
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 24 Feb 2025
The Department has no current plans to undertake an assessment of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on the number of flu, COVID-19, norovirus and respiratory syncytial virus cases.The relationship between cold weather and respi...