Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of benefits remained unclaimed in 2017.
The Department publishes ‘Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up’ statistics annually.
The latest statistics, which relate to 2015/16, are published here:
These statistics provide estimates of take-up, by caseload and expenditure, of the following income-related benefits only (other benefits are available but no take-up estimates are calculated):
They also provide the total and average amounts of benefit claimed and unclaimed for each of these benefits.