HC Deb 18 October 1990 vol 177 cc863-4W
Sir David Price

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of people currently retiring will receive the basic rate by way of retirement pension.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

In the six-month period ending March 1989, the latest date for which figures are available, there were 317,000 claims for retirement pension; 244,940 awards were made of which 79.45 per cent. received the full rate basic retirement pension.