Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the assumptions used for each year between 2030 and 2040 inclusive in respect of (a) average earnings growth, (b) Consumer Prices Index inflation, (c) the number of pensioners in receipt of the basic State Pension and (d) the number of pensioners in receipt of the new State Pension.

The Department does not intend to publish the detailed figures or assumptions for each year from 2030 to 2040.

The methodology for the costings are set out in the document we published on the 29 September. The publication does not operate on the basis of single year assumptions.