The available information is set out in the following table.
The second column of the table shows the number of women aged 60 in each financial year from 1985-86 to 2004-05 with some entitlement to basic state pension who had home responsibilities protection (HRP), including women for whom such HRP did not reduce the number of qualifying years required for a full basic state pension.
Number 1985-86 20,000 1986-87 30,000 1987-88 30,000 1988-89 40,000 1989-90 50,000 1990-91 60,000 1991-92 60,000 1992-93 60,000 1993-94 70,000 1994-95 70,000 1995-96 80,000 1996-97 80,000 1997-98 100,000 1998-99 100,000 1999-2000 100,000 2000-01 110,000 2001-02 110,000 2002-03 130,000 2003-04 150,000 2004-05 170,000 Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10,000 and are consistent with the information supplied in the answer of 8 February 2007. 2. Figures refer to women living in the UK and overseas. 3. Information at this level of detail is not reliable before 1985. 4. Some women who reach state pension age in a particular year with some entitlement to basic state pension may defer their entitlement and claim in a later year. 5. HRP does not reduce the number of qualifying years required for a full basic state pension when that year is already a qualifying year or is one for which a married woman's reduced rate election is in force. 6. Figures refer to those women with some entitlement to basic state pension based on their own contribution record. Entitlement to basic state pension requires satisfying the ‘first contribution condition’ and the ‘25 per cent. rule’. Some women who do not satisfy one or both of these conditions may, nevertheless, also have HRP recorded. Source: Lifetime Labour Market Database 2, 2003-04