To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average response time was for new pensions credit applications in (a) Eastbourne constituency, (b) East Sussex and (c) the UK in each of the last 12 months. (231844)

The information is not available at the level requested.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of pension credit applications received by the Pension Service in the last 12 months have been repeat applications. (231845)

The Agency does not have any information on the volume of repeat applications.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pension credit applications the Pension Service received in each of the last 12 months. (231847)

The Pension Service has received a total of 280,893 applications for pension credit in the last 12 months. The following table shows the total number of applications received for each of the last 12 months.