Winter fuel claimant count rises by more than 200,000 as Keir Starmer prepares for Labour conference showdown with unions and rebels over cash cut for needy pensioners | Daily Mail Online

The number of people who received the payment last winter was 214,000 more than the 11.4 million in 2022-23 and 11.1 million in 2020-21, statistics released by the DWP show.