State Retirement Pensions

(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of the (a) basic and (b) new State Pension, and what proportion of State Pension recipients each category represents for which the latest data is available.


Answered by
Torsten Bell Portrait
Torsten Bell
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 19th October 2026

Please find the number of recipients of the Pre-2016 State Pension and the New State Pension on DWP Stat-Xplore.

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