Pension Credit: Scotland

(asked on 8th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he provide data on the take up of Pension Credit by constituency in Scotland as of 8 March 2023.


Answered by
Laura Trott Portrait
Laura Trott
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 16th March 2023

Take-up statistics for Pension Credit are available at Great Britain level only. The most recent take-up statistics are publicly available in the “Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up” publication which can be found on the statistics section of gov.uk. The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020.

Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The most recent caseload statistics for Pension Credit refer to August 2022, and are publicly available via DWP Stat-xplore. The table below shows the Pension Credit caseload statistics by constituency in Scotland in August 2022.

Aberdeen North

1766

Aberdeen South

1143

Airdrie and Shotts

2662

Angus

2043

Argyll and Bute

2290

Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock

2690

Banff and Buchan

1822

Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

2123

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

1744

Central Ayrshire

2714

Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill

2886

Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East

2102

Dumfries and Galloway

2877

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

2201

Dundee East

1962

Dundee West

2414

Dunfermline and West Fife

1529

East Dunbartonshire

1123

East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

2194

East Lothian

1936

East Renfrewshire

1479

Edinburgh East

2041

Edinburgh North and Leith

1618

Edinburgh South

1262

Edinburgh West

1251

Edinburgh South West

1457

Falkirk

2491

Glasgow Central

3089

Glasgow East

3939

Glasgow North

1878

Glasgow North East

3736

Glasgow North West

2829

Glasgow South West

3337

Glasgow South

2632

Glenrothes

2218

Gordon

1114

Inverclyde

2603

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey

1941

Kilmarnock and Loudoun

2670

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

2300

Lanark and Hamilton East

2825

Livingston

2331

Linlithgow and East Falkirk

2412

Midlothian

1693

Moray

1895

Motherwell and Wishaw

2928

Na h-Eileanan an Iar

1043

North Ayrshire and Arran

2943

North East Fife

1338

Ochil and South Perthshire

1954

Orkney and Shetland

810

Paisley and Renfrewshire North

2006

Paisley and Renfrewshire South

2357

Perth and North Perthshire

2058

Ross, Skye and Lochaber

1628

Rutherglen and Hamilton West

3205

Stirling

1685

West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

996

West Dunbartonshire

2858

Total

127080

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