Cold weather help for pensioners

This winter our Labour Government has paid out more than £200 million in cold weather payments to help pensioners on Pension Credit and vulnerable people cope with the extra cost of heating their homes during the bitter weather.
Each cold weather payment this year is £25 per week, almost three times what it was previously, for every seven day period where the temperature drops below freezing (0°C). So far this winter four cold weather payments have been triggered in this area providing an extra £100 towards the fuel bills of those who need it most. This is in addition to the winter fuel payment of £250 (or £400 for the over 80s) for pensioners.
Labour now spends around 45 times more helping pensioners keep warm than the last Tory government spent. In the 1980s, Tory Minister Edwina Currie told pensioners to wear woolly hats and long johns in cold weather. Do you really want to go back to that?