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Pension Credit: Derbyshire

Volume 496: debated on Monday 20 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in (a) Derbyshire and (b) West Derbyshire have received pension credit in each year since its inception. (286415)

The information requested is in the following table.

Household recipients of pension credit

As at November each year

Derbyshire local authority

West Derbyshire parliamentary constituency

2003

25,700

2,470

2004

34,090

3,400

2005

35,140

3,540

2006

35,420

3,590

2007

35,120

3,510

2008

34,800

3,560

Notes:

1. The number of households in receipt are rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Household recipients are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of a household.

Source:

DWP Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. data