§ Sir Brandon Rhys Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish figures showing the total number of retirement pensioners, distinguishing between men and women, together with an estimate of the number who are householders.
§ Mr. RossiAt November 1980 there were 8,970,000 retirement pensions in payment, including 240,000 payable to pensioners living overseas, but excluding payments of graduated pension only. Of the 8,730,000 in payment to pensioners in Great Britain, 3,090,000 were in payment to men and 5,640,000 to women. It is estimated that in 1977 there were some 6,300,000 families in Great Britain where the head was over pensionable age; a DHSS analysis of the 1977 Family Expenditure Survey indicates that some 90 per cent. were householders.