The information requested is in the following table:
£ per week Financial year Standard rate on own contributions Standard rate for couple where one spouse or civil partner is reliant on the other’s contributions 1996-97 61.15 97.75 2010-11 (actual) 97.65 156.15 2010-11 (price uprated) 87.50 139.75 Notes: 1. All figures in cash terms. 2. Uprating calculations employ historic annual increase in the RPI series for September of the previous year. 3. The standard rate of the Category A pension (payable on a person’s own contributions) is commonly referred to as the ‘singles rate’. 4. Category B pension is about 60 per cent. of the standard rate basic Category A pension. It is currently payable by virtue of a husband’s qualifying years or earnings, and from May 2010 or later will also be payable by virtue of a wife’s or civil partner’s contributions where the wife or civil partner was born after 5 April 1950 and has reached state pension age. 5. The sum of the Category A and Category B pension is often referred to as the ‘couples rate’. 6. From 2010-11, anyone reaching SPA will have their BSP entitlement under reformed contributory conditions; 75 per cent. of women will have full basic state pension in their own right in 2010-11.