Pension Service: Internet

Justine Greening
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many upgrades have been made to the Pension Service's state pension forecast e-service system since September 2008; when each upgrade was made; for how long the online form was unavailable as a result of each upgrade; and if she will make a statement.

Angela Eagle
Since September 2008 there have been three upgrades of the online state pension forecasting service.

To implement these upgrades, the online service was unavailable as follows:

From 00.00 on 24 October 2008 to 07:00 on 27 October 2008

From 17:00 on 23 January 2009 to 07:00 on 26 January 2009

From 19:00 on 3 April 2009 to 01:00 on 4 April 2009

Times are given using the 24 hour clock.