To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his estimate is of the proportion of the target group for the new personal pensions which will be entitled to pension credit in (a) 2040 and (b) 2050; and if he will make a statement. (103989)

The projections published in the White Paper “Security in Retirement: Towards a New Pensions System” do not model the effects of personal accounts. We will be publishing a White Paper on personal accounts shortly.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioner households in City of York constituency receive pension credit; what the average value of pension credit of those households is; and how many pensioners live in those households. (106660)

4,440 households in the City of York constituency were receiving pension credit as at August 2006, with an average weekly payment of £40.71.

Notes:

1. The figure provided is an early estimate. The preferred data source for figures supplied by DWP is the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS). However, the figure provided isthe latest available figure which is taken from the GMS scanat 1 September 2006. These are adjusted using the historical relationship between WPLS and GMS data to give an estimate of the final WPLS figure.

2. Parliamentary constituencies are assigned by matching postcodes against the 2005 postcode directory.

3. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest 10.

4. Average weekly payments are shown as pounds per week and rounded to the nearest penny.

5. Households are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of a household.

Source:DWP 100 per cent. data from the Generalised Matching Service (QMS) Pension Credit scan taken as at 1 September 2006.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in each ward of Wantage constituency are in receipt of pension credit. (106706)

The answer is in the following table.