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Pensions: Forecasts

Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many state pension forecasts have been calculated through submission of the (BR19) form to the retirement pension forecasting team at the Pensions Service in each month since the service has been provided. [138045]

James Purnell: The available information is in the following tables.

Number of s tate p ension forecasts calculated via submission of BR19
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

April

30,822

15,350

May

18,066

16,200

June

15,880

15,719

July

12,63

12,539

August

16,538

13,309

September

12,529

14,579

October

16,886

17,325

November

23,421

15,260

18,070

December

29,030

11,831

10,284

January

9,585

16,957

17,842

February

7,874

11,146

21,572

March

11,285

11,146

20,878

Total

81,195

189,624

193,667


Number of state pension forecasts calculated via submission of BR19 and telephone requests
1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000

April

45,569

55,571

48,800

41,328

May

52,173

47,311

50,396

40,064

June

48,188

54,753

51,658

35,565

July

51,736

44,813

11,595

51,568

August

38,221

34,983

48,586

42,874

September

40,989

51,053

56,056

48,320

October

51,344

53,914

38,438

47,384

November

45,359

45185

40,888

53,025

December

39,873

31,462

35,458

30,260

January

55,438

51,244

29,323

39,696

February

49,082

44,249

36,998

44,330

March

56,845

48,004

70,01

52,721

Total

574,817

562,542

518,897

527,135



5 Jun 2007 : Column 354W
Number of s tate p ension forecasts calculated via submission of BR19 and telephone requests
2001-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05

April

35,355

57,564

101,953

67,325

154,630

May

53,563

54,310

57,638

61,364

85,461

June

60,287

64,505

64,291

89,327

117,176

July

61,090

54,151

64,805

104,367

105,020

August

49,422

80,297

54,155

61,885

152,618

September

55,078

70,156

85,784

66,210

136,191

October

50,921

84,237

58,371

66,599

106,945

November

46,438

46,719

62,016

57,498

December

50,522

23,721

47,562

55,817

January

61,855

33,757

43,266

89,791

February

40,807

60,572

54,804

72,791

March

28,519

31,377

44,610

124,079

Total

593,857

661,366

739,255

917,053

Notes:
1. Requests for forecasts received clerically or via the telephone were not kept separately until November 2005.
2. Clerical clearance figures were not complete for February and March 2006 therefore figures that were available were divided equally between both months.
Source:
Future Pension Centre Automated Call Distribution and Clerical Count of BR19s.

Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many state pension forecast forms have been downloaded in each month since the service has been provided. [138055]

James Purnell: The state pension forecast application form has been available to download since the late 1990s, but statistical data are only available from July 2003 (shown in the following table). Some months are unavailable because of technical problems The available information is in the table.

Number of state pension forecast forms downloaded each month
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

April

9,354

8,681

9,985

May

8,189

8,709

9,469

June

13,228

11,260

5,379

July

10,630

14,212

10,972

7,835

August

8,426

12,987

12,777

9,100

September

14,695

14,283

10,417

October

16,695

14,638

10,802

November

10,220

10,710

9,732

December

7,424

5,997

7,392

January

13,543

12,202

10,918

12,927

February

13,464

12,979

11,030

11,946

March

13,804

11,575

12,903

11,835

Source:
Monthly Webtrends Report

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