Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of eligible pensioners that do not receive pension credit.

The most recent estimates of take-up can be found in the Income Related Benefits: Estimates of Take-up report which provides caseload and expenditure estimates of take-up for Pension Credit in Great Britain for the financial year 2009-10. The figures are available online and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2

Experimental estimates of take-up of income-related benefits based on an improved methodology for Great Britain are provisionally due to be published in January to February 2015.