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Pensioners
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average pensioner income levels have been in each of the last 10 years. [118683]
Maria Eagle: The average net incomes (before housing costs for the years 1994–95 to 2000–01 for all pensioner units are contained in the following table.
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| Year | Average incomes(£ per week, 2000–01 prices) |
|---|---|
| 1994–05 | 183 |
| 1995–06 | 182 |
| 1996–07 | 193 |
| 1997–08 | 196 |
| 1998–09 | 201 |
| 1999–2000 | 209 |
| 2000–01 | 215 |
Notes:
1. All pensioner units are defined as: single (non-cohabiting people over the age of state pension age (65 and over for men, 60 and over for women) and couples (married or cohabiting) where the man is over the state pension age.
2. All incomes are shown as per week and at 2000–01 prices.
Source:
The Pensioners' Incomes Series, 2000–01
Estimates for earlier years are available in the publication The Pensioners' Incomes Series 2000–01 but they are not directly comparable with those in the table.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of regional variations in pensioner poverty. [112765]
Maria Eagle: Estimates of the composition of low-income groups of pensioners and the percentages of pensioners with incomes below a range of low-income thresholds in 2001–02, analysed by Government Office Region, were published in Tables 6.4 and 6.6 of Households Below Average Income 1994–95—2001–02. A copy is available in the Library.
John Barrett: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners will benefit from the pension credit in Scotland, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency. [118250]
Maria Eagle: The information is not available in the format requested however 400,000 people in Scotland stand to benefit from Pension Credit.
- Source:
- Policy Simulation Model 2003/04, based on data from the Family Resources Survey 2000–01.
John Barrett: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Scotland are in receipt of the minimum income guarantee, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency. [118251]
Maria Eagle: The information has been placed in the Library.
John Barrett: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners in Scotland are in receipt of the pension age addition, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency; and what percentage this represents of all pensioners in those local authorities and constituencies. [118464]
Maria Eagle: The information is not available in the format requested. However, the information in the tables shows the numbers of pensioners aged 80 and over in receipt of State Pension, which includes the age addition, as a percentage of all pensioners who are in receipt of a State Pension.
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Notes:
1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred and are expressed in thousands.
2. Numbers are based on a 5 per cent. sample, and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
Source:
Pension Strategy Computer System as at 30 September 2002
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| Age 80 and over in receipt of State Pension(Thousand) | All in receipt of State Pension(Thousand) | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All | 201.3 | 917.3 | 22.0 |
| Aberdeen City | 7.8 | 36.1 | 21.6 |
| Aberdeenshire | 8.6 | 38.3 | 22.3 |
| Angus | 5.2 | 21.8 | 23.9 |
| Argyll and Bute | 4.0 | 17.7 | 22.5 |
| City of Edinburgh | 18.2 | 74.5 | 24.5 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1.5 | 7.6 | 19.9 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 1.3 | 5.0 | 25.8 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 6.2 | 31.6 | 19.5 |
| Dundee City | 6.0 | 28.3 | 21.2 |
| East Ayrshire | 5.3 | 22.5 | 23.6 |
| East Dumbartonshire | 4.1 | 19.6 | 21.1 |
| East Lothian | 4.6 | 17.8 | 26.0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 3.9 | 16.8 | 23.4 |
| Falkirk | 5.5 | 25.9 | 21.1 |
| Fife | 14.6 | 65.2 | 22.4 |
| Glasgow City | 22.8 | 99.0 | 23.0 |
| Highland | 8.8 | 41.2 | 21.3 |
| Inverclyde | 3.6 | 16.9 | 21.3 |
| Midlothian | 3.1 | 14.0 | 22.1 |
| Moray | 3.2 | 15.9 | 20.3 |
| North Ayrshire | 5.3 | 25.1 | 21.0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 9.6 | 50.9 | 18.8 |
| Orkney Islands | 1.2 | 4.2 | 28.4 |
| Perth and Kinross | 6.5 | 29.3 | 22.3 |
| Renfrewshire | 6.3 | 31.4 | 20.0 |
| Shetland Isles | 0.7 | 3.6 | 20.8 |
| South Ayrshire | 5.8 | 24.0 | 24.1 |
| South Lanarkshire | 11.0 | 55.1 | 19.9 |
| Stirling | 3.4 | 16.0 | 21.4 |
| The Scottish Borders | 5.6 | 22.9 | 24.6 |
| West Dumbartonshire | 3.7 | 17.3 | 21.5 |
| West Lothian | 4.0 | 21.8 | 18.1 |
Notes:
1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred and are expressed in thousands.
2. Numbers are based on a 5 per cent. sample, and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
Source:
Pension Strategy Computer System as at 30 September 2002
Pensions
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in the working population have no private pension provision. [117102]
Maria Eagle: Information is not available in the form requested. However, the recent Green Paper "Simplicity, security and choice: Working and Saving
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for Retirement" (Cm 5677-Chart at page 51) noted that, in 2001–02, more than half of all employees were contributing to a private pension. The Family Resources Survey 2001–02, on which the relevant Green Paper material was based, indicated that 11.8 million employees (45 per cent. of the total) were not at that time contributing to a private pension. Many of these may, of course, have private pension provision to which they were not contributing at that time.
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