Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the take-up rate has been of each income-based pensioner benefit in each of the last five years for which data are available.
The latest Official statistics on the take-up of income related benefits relate to 2016/17 and can be found in the ‘Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up in 2016 to 2017’ publication at:
Official statistics relating to earlier years can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2