To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average pensioner income levels have been in each of the last 10 years. [118683]
The average net incomes (before housing costs for the years 1994–95 to 2000–01 for all pensioner units are contained in the following table.
| Year | Average incomes (— per week, 2000–01 prices) |
| 1994–05 | 183 |
| 1995–06 | 182 |
| 1996–07 | 193 |
| 1997–08 | 196 |
| 1998–09 | 201 |
| 1999–2000 | 209 |
| 2000–01 | 215 |
Notes:
1. All pensioner units are defined as: single (non-cohabiting people over the age of state pension age (65 and over for men, 60 and over for women) and couples (married or cohabiting) where the man is over the state pension age.
2. All incomes are shown as per week and at 2000–01 prices.
Source:
The Pensioners' Incomes Series, 2000–01
Estimates for earlier years are available in the publication The Pensioners' Incomes Series 2000–01 but they are not directly comparable with those in the table.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of regional variations in pensioner poverty. [112765]
Estimates of the composition of low-income groups of pensioners and the percentages of pensioners with incomes below a range of low-income thresholds in 2001–02, analysed by Government Office Region, were published in Tables 6.4 and 6.6 of Households Below Average Income 1994–95–2001–02. A copy is available in the Library.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners will benefit from the pension credit in Scotland, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency. [118250]
The information is not available in the format requested however 400,000 people in Scotland stand to benefit from Pension Credit.
Source:
Policy Simulation Model 2003/04, based on data from the Family Resources Survey 2000–01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Scotland are in receipt of the minimum income guarantee, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency. [118251]
The information has been placed in the Library.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners in Scotland are in receipt of the pension age addition, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency; and what percentage this represents of all pensioners in those local authorities and constituencies. [118464]
The information is not available in the format requested. However, the information in the tables shows the numbers of pensioners aged 80 and over in receipt of State Pension, which includes the age addition, as a percentage of all pensioners who are in receipt of a State Pension.
State Pension recipients aged 80 plus Scotland by parliamentary constituency
| |||
Age 80 and over in receipt of State Pension (Thousand)
| All in receipt of State pension (Thousand)
| Percentage
| |
| All | 201.3 | 917.3 | 22.0 |
| Aberdeen Central | 2.6 | 10.9 | 23.9 |
| Aberdeen North | 2.0 | 11.0 | 18.2 |
| Aberdeen South | 3.2 | 14.2 | 23.1 |
| Airdrie and Shotts | 2.1 | 12.1 | 17.4 |
| Angus | 3.5 | 15.6 | 22.4 |
| Argyll and Bute | 3.0 | 13.6 | 22.1 |
| Ayr | 3.8 | 15.5 | 25.1 |
| Banff and Buchan | 2.9 | 13.4 | 28.2 |
| Caithness Sunderland and Easter Ross | 2.3 | 10.5 | 22.1 |
| Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley | 3.5 | 15.6 | 22.4 |
| Central Fife | 2.7 | 14.0 | 19.2 |
| Clydebank and Milngavie | 3.3 | 13.8 | 24.1 |
| Clydesdale | 3.5 | 15.6 | 22.4 |
| Coatbridge and Chryston | 2.1 | 11.2 | 19.1 |
| Comhairle nan Eileen Siar | 1.3 | 5.0 | 26.0 |
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | 1.6 | 8.8 | 18.1 |
| Cunninghame North | 3.3 | 14.7 | 22.4 |
| Cunninghame South | 2.0 | 10.4 | 19.2 |
| Dumbarton | 2.7 | 12.5 | 21.9 |
| Dumfries | 2.8 | 16.5 | 17.1 |
| Dundee East | 3.3 | 15.5 | 21.5 |
| Dundee West | 2.6 | 12.6 | 20.8 |
| Dunfermline East | 2.6 | 11.5 | 22.8 |
| Dunfermline West | 2.5 | 11.7 | 21.5 |
| East Kilbride | 2.7 | 15.4 | 17.5 |
| East Lothian | 3.9 | 15.4 | 25.0 |
| Eastwood | 3.9 | 16.8 | 23.4 |
| Edinburgh Central | 2.8 | 11.0 | 25.2 |
| Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | 2.9 | 13.1 | 22.3 |
| Edinburgh North and Leigh | 2.6 | 10.7 | 24.6 |
| Edinburgh Pentlands | 3.3 | 12.8 | 25.8 |
| Edinburgh South | 4.0 | 13.3 | 30.2 |
| Edinburgh West | 3.3 | 15.9 | 21.1 |
| Falkirk East | 2.9 | 13.4 | 21.7 |
| Falkirk West | 2.6 | 12.5 | 20.5 |
| Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | 3.3 | 15.1 | 22.1 |
| Glasgow Anniesland | 3.4 | 13.4 | 25.2 |
| Glasgow Baillieston | 1.7 | 10.1 | 17.2 |
| Glasgow Cathcart | 2.4 | 11.4 | 21.2 |
| Glasgow Govan | 2.6 | 8.4 | 31.2 |
| Glasgow Kelvin | 2.7 | 9.3 | 29.5 |
| Glasgow Maryhill | 2.5 | 9.7 | 26.1 |
| Glasgow Pollok | 2.5 | 12.5 | 19.7 |
| Glasgow Rutherglen | 2.6 | 12.9 | 20.3 |
| Glasgow Shettleston | 2.0 | 10.2 | 19.3 |
| Glasgow Springburn | 2.6 | 12.2 | 21.1 |
| Gordon | 2.7 | 13.3 | 20.6 |
| Greenock and Inverclyde | 2.9 | 12.9 | 22.8 |
| Hamilton North and Bellshill | 1.8 | 9.6 | 18.9 |
| Hamilton South | 1.8 | 9.8 | 18.8 |
| Inverness East Nairn and Lochaber | 3.6 | 16.9 | 21.3 |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 3.7 | 15.4 | 24.1 |
| Kirkcaldy | 3.0 | 13.1 | 23.1 |
| Linlithgow | 2.2 | 11.2 | 19.5 |
| Livingston | 1.8 | 10.6 | 16.6 |
| Midlothian | 2.5 | 11.2 | 22.3 |
| Moray | 2.9 | 14.3 | 20.4 |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | 2.6 | 13.1 | 19.6 |
| North East Fife | 3.7 | 14.9 | 24.9 |
| North Tayside | 4.0 | 17.6 | 23.0 |
| Ochil | 2.4 | 12.2 | 19.5 |
| Orkney and Shetland | 1.9 | 7.7 | 24.9 |
| Paisley North | 2.4 | 11.4 | 21.1 |
| Paisley South | 2.5 | 12.9 | 19.4 |
| Perth | 3.9 | 16.3 | 24.1 |
| Ross Skye and Inverness West | 2.9 | 13.9 | 20.8 |
| Roxburgh and Berwickshire | 3.3 | 13.3 | 24.9 |
| Stirling | 2.9 | 13.3 | 21.6 |
| Strathkelvin and Bearsden | 2.8 | 14.1 | 19.8 |
State Pension recipients aged 80 plus in Scotland by parliamentary constituency
| |||
Age 80 and over in receipt of State Pension (Thousand)
| All in receipt of State Pension (Thousand)
| Percentage
| |
| Tweeddale Ettrick and Lauderdale | 2.9 | 12.5 | 23.6 |
| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 3.2 | 13.2 | 24.3 |
| West Renfrewshire | 2.1 | 11.2 | 18.4 |
Notes:
1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred and are expressed in thousands.
2. Numbers are based on a 5 per cent. sample, and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
Source:
Pension Strategy Computer System as at 30 September 2002
State Pension recipients aged 80 plus in Scotland by local authority
| |||
Age 80 and over in receipt of State Pension (Thousand)
| All in receipt of State Pension (Thousand)
| Percentage
| |
| All | 201.3 | 917.3 | 22.0 |
| Aberdeen City | 7.8 | 36.1 | 21.6 |
| Aberdeenshire | 8.6 | 38.3 | 22.3 |
| Angus | 5.2 | 21.8 | 23.9 |
| Argyll and Bute | 4.0 | 17.7 | 22.5 |
| City of Edinburgh | 18.2 | 74.5 | 24.5 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1.5 | 7.6 | 19.9 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 1.3 | 5.0 | 25.8 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 6.2 | 31.6 | 19.5 |
| Dundee City | 6.0 | 28.3 | 21.2 |
| East Ayrshire | 5.3 | 22.5 | 23.6 |
| East Dumbartonshire | 4.1 | 19.6 | 21.1 |
| East Lothian | 4.6 | 17.8 | 26.0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 3.9 | 16.8 | 23.4 |
| Falkirk | 5.5 | 25.9 | 21.1 |
| Fife | 14.6 | 65.2 | 22.4 |
| Glasgow City | 22.8 | 99.0 | 23.0 |
| Highland | 8.8 | 41.2 | 21.3 |
| Inverclyde | 3.6 | 16.9 | 21.3 |
| Midlothian | 3.1 | 14.0 | 22.1 |
| Moray | 3.2 | 15.9 | 20.3 |
| North Ayrshire | 5.3 | 25.1 | 21.0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 9.6 | 50.9 | 18.8 |
| Orkney Islands | 1.2 | 4.2 | 28.4 |
| Perth and Kinross | 6.5 | 29.3 | 22.3 |
| Renfrewshire | 6.3 | 31.4 | 20.0 |
| Shetland Isles | 0.7 | 3.6 | 20.8 |
| South Ayrshire | 5.8 | 24.0 | 24.1 |
| South Lanarkshire | 11.0 | 55.1 | 19.9 |
| Stirling | 3.4 | 16.0 | 21.4 |
| The Scottish Borders | 5.6 | 22.9 | 24.6 |
| West Dumbartonshire | 3.7 | 17.3 | 21.5 |
| West Lothian | 4.0 | 21.8 | 18.1 |
Notes:
1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred and are expressed in thousands.
2. Numbers are based on a 5 per cent. sample, and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
Source:
Pension Strategy Computer System as at 30 September 2002