Social Security

One of the key measures that we have taken this year is the tripling of cold weather payments from £8.25 to £25 a week. That has meant that whereas last year we paid out about £4 million in cold weather payments, this year we have already paid out about £166 million. We are trying to ensure that extra help is provided. I shall discuss some of the other changes that we have made to ensure that real action is taken now.