Pensioners: Housing Mr. Waterson To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of pensioner households were (a) owner-occupiers, (b) social renters and (c) private renters in 2007-08. Mr. Iain Wright I have been asked to reply. It is estimated from the 2007 Labour Force Survey that there were a total of 5,959,000 pensioner households in the period April to June 2007. Pensioner households are defined as those households where the household reference person has reached pensionable age. Currently, females reach pensionable age at 60; males reach pensionable age at 65. The estimated number of pensioner households by tenure in 2007 was as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Housing tenure |Number of pensioner households|Percentage| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Owner-occupiers |4,346,000 |72.9 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Social renters |1,312,000 |22.0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Private renters |297,000 |5.0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Not known |4,000 |0.1 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Total |5,959,000 |100.0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Source:Labour Force Survey, Office for National Statistics| | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------