Winter Fuel Payments: Serious proposal from the Prime Minister Needed

Responding to Starmer's winter fuel payments comments at Prime Minister’s Questions today, Welsh Liberal Democrat Westminster Spokesperson David Chadwick MP said:

“For almost a year, the Liberal Democrats and I have been fighting to get the Government to listen to the deep concerns of pensioners in Wales over the slashing of Winter Fuel Payments.

“A staggering 543,372 pensioners in Wales are currently set to be impacted by the cut as things stand.

“The Prime Minister has today announced the ‘concepts of a plan’ that have come far too late for the millions of pensioners forced to freeze in their own homes over the winter.

“The least those people deserve is an apology for this punitive policy and a serious proposal from the Prime Minister on how he will begin to pick up the pieces from his Government’s disastrous decision. Not vague words that will take months to materialise into something meaningful.”

ENDS