Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of pensioner households in Nottinghamshire eligible for Pension Credit who are not currently claiming it; and what steps he is taking to increase take-up among eligible pensioners.

The latest available Pension Credit take-up statistics cover the financial year ending 2025 and are available at: Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up - GOV.UK. These statistics are only available at Great Britain level and cannot be broken down to smaller geographical areas.

However, the Department's Households potentially eligible for Pension Credit, 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK ad hoc statistical publication, provides analysis of households potentially eligible for, but not claiming, Pension Credit at sub-national and local authority level. It estimates that around 11,000 pensioner households in Nottinghamshire, excluding Nottingham City, were potentially eligible for Pension Credit but were not claiming. Including Nottingham City, the estimate was 13,900 households. Household numbers have been rounded to the nearest 100 and these figures are not directly comparable with the current published estimates of take-up in the official statistics.

For information on the steps the Government is taking to increase Pension Credit take-up among eligible pensioners, I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given on 3 November 2026 to Question UIN 38612.