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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...