Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) men and (b) women receiving a state pension under the old pension rate.

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As at August 2018, the most recent date for which data are available, there were 5,000,000 men and 6,800,000 women receiving State Pension calculated under the pre-2016 rules.

(Source: DWP Administrative data. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100,000)