State Retirement Pensions

(asked on 14th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) number and (b) average age was of state pension recipients in (i) Scotland, (ii) England, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland in the latest period for which figures are available.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 9th October 2017

Please find the response to your question in the table below:

Caseload

Average Age

Scotland

1,020,020

74.3

England

10,001,160

74.7

Wales

647,330

74.5

Source: DWP Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study, February 2017.

Caseload figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.

Averages are means.

There are additionally 430 persons resident in Great Britain whose location is unknown.

DWP does not administer State Pensions for Northern Ireland. The figures above relate solely to those that are administered by the DWP.

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