Cold Weather Payments In Wolverhampton

EDM number 367 in 1995-96, proposed by Ken Purchase on 01/02/1996.

That this House notes that the postcode/weather station system used to trigger cold weather payments is completely arbitary; especially draws to attention the position in Wolverhampton where part of the borough is monitored from Shawbury in Shropshire and the adjoining part is monitored from Birmingham Airport fifty miles south in Warwickshire where consistently warmer temperatures are recorded with the consequence that people at risk from hypothermia and experiencing the same ambient temperature as nearby neighbours do not qualify for the same cold weather payment; and calls upon the Government to bring common sense to bear on this farcical situation which is unnecessarily putting life at risk.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs.