Pension Credit: Carers
(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 estimate he he has made of the proportion of Government expenditure on pension credit which falls within the carer addition element of that credit in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Glasgow and (d) Glasgow East constituency in the 2015-16 financial year.
Forecasts of expenditure as a result of the carer addition element of Pension Credit for 2015/16 are not available. However, estimates of the outturn expenditure (as a result of the carer addition element of Pension Credit) in 2014/15 are 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.
Pension Credit expenditure as a result of the carer addition, 2014/15 | £, million | …as a percentage of total pension credit expenditure in that area |
Great Britain | £364.7 | 5.5% |
Scotland | £39.6 | 6.7% |
Glasgow (City) | £6.4 | 5.9% |
Glasgow East (constituency) | £1.8 | 9.4% |