Starmer and Sunak clash over winter fuel cuts at PMQs
Rishi Sunak asked Sir Keir Starmer to publish the government's impact assessment on the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance for most pensioners, in testy exchanges during Prime Minister's Questions.
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Rishi Sunak asked Sir Keir Starmer to publish the government's impact assessment on the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance for most pensioners, in testy exchanges during Prime Minister's Questions.
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00:00Mr. Speaker, yesterday Labour MPs voted to remove the winter fuel payment from over 10
00:09million British pensioners, including those with just £13,000 of income. With that decision
00:16debated and made, it is now important that the House understands the full consequences
00:23of the Government's choice. So can I very specifically ask the Prime Minister, will
00:29he now publish the impact assessment before the House rises?
00:33Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is this. They left a £22 billion black
00:42hole and they hid it from the OBR. Richard Hughes is absolutely clear, it's the largest
00:50year ahead overspend outside of the pandemic. Now of course when it comes to mitigations
00:56and impacts, we've put those in place. Ramping up pension credit, dealing with housing benefit
01:02and linking it, something the party opposite didn't do for years. And because of the tough
01:06decisions that we're making to stabilise the economy, we can make sure that the triple
01:11lock shows that increases in pensions will outstrip any loss of payments. But before
01:18he complains about us clearing up his mess, perhaps he'd like to apologise for the £22
01:24billion black hole.
01:28When I was in government, I delivered record increases in the state pension. We protected
01:33the winter fuel payment and we gave pensioners cost of living benefits. He's the one that's
01:39taking money away from pensioners on £13,000, Mr. Speaker.