Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to learn lessons from the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018: benefit take-up strategy following the publication of Estimates of Take-up for Pension Credit in 2019-20.

The latest estimates of Pension Credit take-up for 2019/20, published on 24 February, show an encouraging improvement across all headline measures.

Compared to 2018/19; take-up of Guarantee Credit increased from 70% to 73% and take-up of Pension Credit overall increased from 63% to 66%. In 2019/20, 77% of the total amount of Pension Credit that could have been claimed was claimed.

The Department is aware of the work conducted by the Scottish Government to encourage take-up of their benefits.