APPENDIX 3: SOCIAL FUND AND COLD WEATHER
(GENERAL) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2008 (SI 2008/2569)
Further information from the Department for Work
and Pensions
Additional data on location and number of Cold
Weather Payments made
1. We discussed what data you would like on Cold
Weather Payments and we agreed [to] provide, for each year, details
of:
· the weather stations that triggered and
how many times each of them triggered;
· the location of each weather station;
· the estimated number of people who received
a Cold Weather Payment by weather station.
2. The data is given in the tables.
| COLD WEATHER PAYMENTS FOR GREAT BRITAIN FOR 2005-06
|
| Weather station | Admin area
| Triggers | Estimated recipients
|
| Albemarle | Northumberland
| 1 | 128,400
|
| Aviemore | Highland
| 3 | 1,600
|
| Bingley | West Yorkshire
| 2 | 128,600
|
| Boltshope Park | Durham
| 5 | 21,000
|
| Braemar | Aberdeenshire
| 3 | 100
|
| Cassley | Highland
| 2 | 300
|
| Eskdalemuir | Dumfries & Galloway
| 4 | 7,200
|
| Fylingdales | North Yorkshire
| 1 | 15,800
|
| Kinloss | Moray
| 1 | 14,200
|
| Lake Vyrnwy | Powys
| 2 | 4,800
|
| Lerwick | Shetland
| 1 | 1,200
|
| Linton on Ouse | North Yorkshire
| 1 | 132,200
|
| Liscombe | Somerset
| 1 | 8,500
|
| Loch Glascarnoch | Highland
| 4 | 700
|
| Salsburgh | North Lanarkshire
| 1 | 14,500
|
| Sennybridge | Powys
| 2 | 64,800
|
| Shawbury | Shropshire
| 2 | 61,400
|
| Tulloch Bridge | Highland
| 3 | 2,900
|
| Wick | Highland
| 1 | 2,500
|
| Total |
| 40 | 610,800
|
| COLD WEATHER PAYMENTS FOR GREAT BRITAIN FOR 2006-07
|
| Weather station | Admin area
| Triggers | Estimated recipients
|
| Aviemore | Highland
| 1 | 1,700
|
| Boltshope Park | Durham
| 1 | 21,900
|
| Braemar | Aberdeenshire
| 1 | 100
|
| Capel Curig | Conwy
| 1 | 800
|
| Dyce | Aberdeen
| 1 | 29,900
|
| Eskdalemuir | Dumfries & Galloway
| 1 | 7,600
|
| Linton on Ouse | North Yorkshire
| 1 | 138,700
|
| Loch Glascarnoch | Highland
| 1 | 800
|
| Sennybridge | Powys
| 2 | 68,000
|
| Shawbury | Shropshire
| 1 | 64,600
|
| Total |
| 11 | 334,100
|
| COLD WEATHER PAYMENTS FOR GREAT BRITAIN FOR 2007-08
|
| Weather station | Admin area
| Triggers | Estimated recipients
|
| Aviemore | Highland
| 2 | 800
|
| Bishopton | Renfrewshire
| 1 | 205,400
|
| Braemar | Aberdeenshire
| 4 | 1,600
|
| Cassley | Highland
| 1 | 400
|
| Charterhall | Scottish Borders
| 1 | 2,800
|
| Edinburgh Gogarbank |
Edinburgh | 1
| 81,500 |
| Eskdalemuir | Dumfries & Galloway
| 1 | 6,400
|
| Kinloss | Moray
| 1 | 14,900
|
| Lake Vyrnwy | Powys
| 1 | 5,900
|
| Leuchars | Fife
| 1 | 42,400
|
| Loch Glascarnoch | Highland
| 3 | 800
|
| Redesdale | Northumberland
| 2 | 6,200
|
| Salsburgh | North Lanarkshire
| 1 | 15,100
|
| Sennybridge | Powys
| 1 | 67,100
|
| Shap | Cumbria
| 1 | 4,900
|
| Tulloch Bridge | Highland
| 1 | 2,300
|
| Total |
| 23 | 458,500
|
Sources
3. Estimated numbers of recipients are based
on:
· scans of benefit computer systems taken
at the end of October each year giving the number of potential
qualifiers for Cold Weather Payments by weather station;
· DWP records of triggers;
· DWP records of the total number of payments
actually made by benefit computer system.
The admin area for each weather station is based
on data supplied by the Met Office.
Notes
4. Figures are for Cold Weather Payments triggered
in the relevant financial year.
5. The figures given are estimated numbers of
recipients, not estimated number of payments. For
example, for Aviemore weather station, which triggered twice in
2007-08, an estimated 800 people received payments, but an estimated
1,600 payments were made.
6. Estimated numbers of recipients have been
rounded to the nearest 100. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
7. Each year, there are usually some small changes
to the weather stations used for the Cold Weather Payments scheme.
(For example, the Boltshope Park weather station closed after
the winter of 2006-07 and the postcodes linked to it were allocated
to Albemarle and Bingley and to a new weather station Redesdale.)
8. For each weather station, the admin area given
is the one where the weather station is located. However, in the
Cold Weather Payments scheme, the postcodes linked to the weather
station may include only part of this admin area and may include
parts of adjacent admin areas as well.
October 2008
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