Pension Credit Mr. Waterson 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. Ms Rosie Winterton The information is not available at the level requested. Mr. Waterson 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. Ms Rosie Winterton The Agency does not have any information on the volume of repeat applications. Mr. Waterson 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. Ms Rosie Winterton 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. ----------------------------------------- | |PC applications received| ----------------------------------------- |October 2007 |24,121 | ----------------------------------------- |November 2007 |24,319 | ----------------------------------------- |December 2007 |17,123 | ----------------------------------------- |January 2008 |25,619 | ----------------------------------------- |February 2008 |23,460 | ----------------------------------------- |March 2008 |20,791 | ----------------------------------------- |April 2008 |24,265 | ----------------------------------------- |May 2008 |21,946 | ----------------------------------------- |June 2008 |23,251 | ----------------------------------------- |July 2008 |27,903 | ----------------------------------------- |August 2008 |22,869 | ----------------------------------------- |September 2008|25,226 | ----------------------------------------- | | | ----------------------------------------- |12 month total|280,893 | -----------------------------------------