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Pensions: York

Volume 463: debated on Tuesday 24 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average value of state pensions, benefits and other payments was to (a) single pensioners and (b) pensioner couples in York in 1996-97 and each year since then. (151530)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people (a) in the City of York local authority area and (b) City of York constituency receive (i) basic state pension and (ii) pension credit; and what the average weekly value of pension credit received is in each case. (151629)

The answer is in the following tables.

Basic state pension recipients at September 2006

Number

York local authority

35,200

City of York parliamentary constituency

17,900

Notes: 1. Data is taken from 5 per cent. extract of the Pensions Strategy Computer System (PSCS), therefore figures are subject to a degree of sampling variation. They are also adjusted to be consistent with the overall caseload from the WPLS. 2. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Source: Five per cent sample, DWP Information Directorate

Number of households receiving pension credit and the average weekly amount of pension credit payments at February 2007

Pension credit household recipients

Average weekly amount

York local authority

6,720

40.22

City of York parliamentary constituency

4,440

41.07

Notes: 1. The figures provided are early estimates. The preferred data source for figures supplied by DWP is the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS). However, the figures provided are the latest available figures, which are taken from the GMS scan at 2 March 2007. These are adjusted using the historical relationship between WPLS and GMS data to give an estimate of the final WPLS figure. 2. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest 10. 3. 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 (GMS) Pension Credit scan taken as at 2 March 2007.