Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many national insurance numbers were issued in each of the past five years; and how many were outstanding at each year end.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The department regularly publishes the number of National Insurance Numbers (NINOs) allocated by DWP to Adult Foreign Nationals on Stat-Xplore, and these are shown in Table 1 for the past five years. The number of outstanding applications at the end of each year are shown in Table 2. These figures do not include those NINOs issued by HMRC to juveniles.
Table 1: Annual number of National Insurance Numbers Allocated to Adult Foreign Nationals, April 2018 to March 2023
FYE 2019 | 650,000 |
FYE 2020 | 760,000 |
FYE 2021 | 230,000 |
FYE 2022 | 770,000 |
FYE 2023 | 1,110,000 |
Source: Stat-Xplore
Note: Data has been rounded to the nearest 10,000.
Table 2: Number of outstanding National Insurance Number applications at the end of the last 5 business years
FYE 2019 | 86,000 |
FYE 2020 | 60,000 |
FYE 2021 | 55,000 |
FYE 2022 | 22,000 |
FYE 2023 | 10,000 |
Source: Internal NINO clerical Capacity Plans and NINO Work Position Overviews.
Note: Data has been rounded to the nearest 1,000.
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of National Insurance numbers issued to individuals with dates of birth before (1) 1940, (2) 1950, and (3) 1960 are now inactive.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The requested information is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many National Insurance numbers were (1) issued, and (2) deleted in each of the last three years for which records are available.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The requested information at point (1) is not available and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The requested information at point (2) National Insurance Numbers (NINO) are not deleted. Once they have been allocated they are registered on Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) E-NIRS system where they remain indefinitely.
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many National Insurance numbers were issued in each of the (1) countries of the UK, and (2) regions of England in each of the last three years for which records are available.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The requested information is not available and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which five countries had the most overseas nationals being allocated National Insurance numbers in each of the last three years for which records are available.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The available information on the five countries with the most overseas nationals being allocated National insurance numbers can be found within our published statistics National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals entering the UK. The latest available information is up to June 2018
Below is a table of allocated NINos per country for the top 5 countries for the last three calendar and financial years. Taken from the published stats
Calendar Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
2015 | Romania 169,888 | Poland 111,270 | Italy 58,653 | Spain 50,028 | Bulgaria 39,189 |
2016 | Romania 189,023 | Poland 93,372 | Italy 62,984 | Spain 47,741 | Bulgaria 42,342 |
2017 | Romania 154,014 | Poland 61,821 | Italy 50,880 | Bulgaria 38,744 | Spain 35,642 |
Financial Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
2015/16 | Romania 179,242 | Poland 108,672 | Italy 57,293 | Spain 48,498 | Bulgaria 39,643 |
2016/17 | Romania 181,882 | Poland 83,589 | Italy 61,751 | Spain 44,075 | Bulgaria 42,052 |
2017/18 | Romania 147,956 | Poland 58,370 | Italy 47,887 | Bulgaria 37,223 | Spain 34,599 |
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total number of active National Insurance numbers at the latest date for which records are available.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The requested information is not available and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to introduce a smoothed discount rate for the purpose of pension fund valuation.
Answered by Baroness Altmann
Government consulted in 2013 on whether legislation should be introduced to allow the ‘smoothing’ of asset values and liabilities in funding valuations.
Responses to the call for evidence indicated that there was no strong case for legislating to permit smoothing, with the overwhelming majority of respondents against this option. Respondents instead favoured greater use of the flexibilities within the existing legislation governing scheme funding.
In its response to the call for evidence the Government advised that, given the views received, it did not intend to pursue the option of legislating to permit asset and liability smoothing, and that remains the Government’s position.
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many National Insurance numbers were in use at the end of each of the last five years for which records are available.
Answered by Lord Freud
The information requested is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many National Insurance numbers were issued to non-residents in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Lord Freud
In order to be allocated a NINo via the DWP Adult NINo Allocation process an individual must be resident in the UK at the time of application. However, a very small proportion of NINos are allocated by the International Pension Centre to those who are resident abroad for the purposes of Social Security Benefit administration. These figures are not included in the published statistics National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals entering the UK.
NINos Issued to non-UK residents
2013-2014 | 5,390 |
2014-2015 | 4,150 |
2015 -16* | 3,830 |
Figures are only available from 2013 and are rounded.
*is to end of February 2016.
Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applications for National Insurance numbers were outstanding on 31 December in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Lord Freud
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.