The information is as follows.
Individual pensioners 2007-081
The following figures are the latest available estimates and are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes 2004-05 and projected forward to 2007-08 in line with Budget 2007 assumptions.
1 State pension age; males aged 65 and over, females aged 60 and over.
Pensioners paying income tax Taxpaying pensioners1 (£ million) 5.6 All pensioners2 (£ million) 11.7 Taxpaying proportion (percentage) 48 1 Projection for the United Kingdom based on the 2004-05 Survey of Personal Incomes and thus subject to sampling and non-sampling error. 2 Average of Government Actuary's Departments mid-year pensioner populations projections for 2007 and 2008. Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.1 million.
Pensioner households, 2005-061
Projections of pensioner households are not available. The following figures provided are estimates based on the latest available Family Resources Survey (2005-06).
1 Households in the United Kingdom with at least one person of state pension age; males aged 65 and over, females aged 60 and over.
Pensioner households paying income tax Taxpaying pensioner households1 (£ million) 4.8 All pensioner households2 (£ million) 8.0 Taxpaying proportion (percentage) 60 1 Modelled liability to income tax based on the Family Resources Survey for the 2005-06 financial year, and subject to sampling and non-sampling error. 2 All pensioner households from the Family Resources Survey. Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.1 million.