Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average weekly Pension Credit payment was in April 2024.

Pension Credit data for April 2024 is not currently available.

The latest data is from February 2024, when the average weekly Pension Credit payment was £76.20.

The next iteration of Pension Credit statistics containing data to May 2024 will be available on Stat Xplore from 28^th November 2024.

This data is available on Stat-Xplore at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk in the ‘Pension Credit - Data from May 2018’ dataset. More information on the data included in the ‘Pension Credit’ dataset can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.