State Retirement Pension Andrew Stunell To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have not received a state retirement pension payment to which they are entitled since 1 January 2007 in each region of the UK; and if he will make a statement. James Purnell The information is not available. Andrew Stunell To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many state retirement pension applications are waiting to be processed; and if he will make a statement. James Purnell At the end of December 2006, the Pension Service had 54,099 state pension applications registered on the system waiting to be processed. Source: Department for Work and Pensions Management Information System Programme. (MISP)