Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of eligible people who are not claiming pension credit; and what assessment she has made of the reasons people are not claiming that benefit.

Estimates of the number of families entitled to pension but not claiming it can be found in the following publication: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2018-to-2019

Information regarding the research carried out by the department around why those entitled to Pension Credit do not claim can be found in the following publication: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pension-credit-eligible-non-recipients-barriers-to-claiming-rr819