{"value":{"id":1851399,"memberId":4147,"member":null,"memberRole":"Minister of State (Minister for Lords)","uin":"HLWS1044","dateMade":"2025-11-12T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":29,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Work and Pensions","title":"Increase in AME Budgets","text":"<p>My honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Secretary, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Pensions) (Torsten Bell MP) has made the following Written Statement.</p><p>I would like to notify the House that the Department for Work and Pensions has obtained approval from His Majesty’s Treasury for an increase of £1,610,000,000 to non-voted AME budgets and the total AME budget control, to fund increases to the Winter Fuel Payment in line with the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2025.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1851396,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2025-11-12T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1851399","method":"GET"}]}