Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much pension credit was unclaimed in (a) Aberavon constituency, (b) Wales and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.

Official statistics on the take-up of income-related benefits at Great Britain level, including Pension Credit, can be found in the ‘Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up in 2016 to 2017’ publication.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2016-to-2017

The next report containing 2017/18 data is due to be published on 27^th February 2020. It will be available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2017-to-2018

The information requested on the amount of Pension Credit which remains unclaimed is only available at the Great Britain level. Below are the figures on the amount of unclaimed Pension Credit within Great Britain over the past 3 years of data available.