Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in Enfield North were eligible for pension credit for each of the last 10 years.

For the information requested is not available.

The DWP publishes annual take-up statistics for income-related benefits, including Pension Credit, at Great Britain level. The latest data was published in October 2020 and provides take-up estimates up to financial year 2018/19.

The Estimates of take up of income related benefits over the last 10 years, including the latest estimates for 2018/19 can be found in the following publications: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2

Information on the number of people in receipt of Pension Credit by Parliamentary Constituency can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Population estimates for the UK by age and Parliamentary Constituency are published by the Office for National Statistics and can be found here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates