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Written question asked by Anne McLaughlin (Scottish National Party) on Tuesday, 14 June 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 20 June 2022 (named day). It was answered by Guy Opperman (Conservative) on Monday, 20 June 2022 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Pension Credit

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the uptake of Pension Credit was in (a) Glasgow North East constituency and (b) the UK in (i) 2019-2020, (ii) 2020-2021 and (iii) 2022 to 14 June.

Answer

Estimates for the number of Pension Credit claimants in Glasgow North East constituency can be found on Stat-Xplore. The latest data is for November 2021.

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk

Estimates for Pension Credit take-up in a financial year are only available at the Great Britain level and are available in the “Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up” publication which can be found on the statistics section of gov.uk. The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020.

Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
17970
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Pension credit Take-up Coventry
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk