State Retirement Pensions: Expenditure

(asked on 4th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimates he has made of expenditure on the state pension for people in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Glasgow and (d) Glasgow East constituency in the most recent period for which figures are available.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 12th November 2015

Due to the geographical level of information requested it has been assumed that the question refers to benefit expenditure.


The information on requested is shown in the table below.


Tables show expenditure for Great Britain, not the UK, as expenditure in Northern Ireland is the responsibility of Northern Ireland Executive.

State Pension Expenditure £ million2014/15
Great Britain86,515.8
Scotland7,323.8
Glasgow (City)615.4
Glasgow East (constituency)104.5

Benefit expenditure information is published and can be found using the following URL:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015


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