Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) people and (b) households are (i) in receipt of and (ii) entitled to Pension Credit in each parliamentary constituency.

Statistics showing how many households are in receipt of Pension credit in each Parliamentary constituency can be obtained from the published data on Stat Xplore here: Pension Credit – Data from May 2018. Please note that the published Pension Credit figures refer to households, so the number of individuals will be higher (i.e., taking account of households where it is a couple claiming Pension Credit).

In published DWP Pension Credit Take-up statistics, it is estimated that up to 880,000 households who were entitled to receive Pension Credit did not claim the benefit. However, these statistics are only available at Great Britain level and cannot be broken down to smaller geographical areas. The latest available Pension Credit take-up statistics for Great Britain cover the financial year 2021 to 2022 and are available at: Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year ending 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The published Pension Credit caseload for Great Britain, for financial year 2021/2022 shows that an estimated eligible 1,410,000 households received pension credit. This is obtained from the latest published Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2024 and is available at: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).