Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Pension Credit claimants reached State Pension age (a) in and (b) since April 2016.
Latest published statistics show there were 1.38m Pension Credit claimants at May-23. 1,440 of these reached State Pension age (SPa) in April 2016, with a further 196,520 having reached SPa since April 2016.