Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment his Department has made of rates of pensioner poverty between people receiving the (a) pre-2016 and (b) new state pension.

Estimates of the rates of pensioner poverty categorised by people receiving the pre-2016 State Pension or new State Pension are not available, as this categorisation is not recorded in the Family Resources Survey.

Statistics on the number of individuals living in families where at least one member is in receipt of State Pension that are in Absolute and/or Relative Poverty in 2023/24 are published on Stat-Xplore (https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/) in the Households Below Average Income dataset.