HC Deb 15 May 1986 vol 97 cc523-6W
Ms. Richardson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list each country or dependency outside the United Kingdom where United Kingdom retirement pensioners are known to live and draw their pension, showing for each country how many pensioners there are, whether they get pension increases and, for those countries where they do not, what is the average pension paid.

Mr. Major

United Kingdom retirement pensions are paid to beneficiaries living in the following countries outside the United Kingdom. The number of beneficiaries in each country at 31 December 1985 (the latest date for which figures are available) is shown in each case. The average pension paid in countries where no increases are payable is £13.32.

Country Number
Albania 5
Algeria 1
Andorra 88
Angola 1
Anguilla 49
Antigua 119
Argentina 133
Australia 96,126
Austria 1,867
Bahamas 106
Bahrain 15
Bangladesh 1,253
Barbados 729
Belgium 2,449
Belize 10
Bermuda 241
Bolivia 4
Botswana 38
Brazil 133
Brunei 9
Bulgaria 9
Burma 7
Cameroon 4
Canada 54,388
Cayman Islands 22
Chile 38
China 7
Colombia 23
Cook Islands 5
Costa Rica 5
Cyprus 2,159
Czechoslovakia 25
Denmark 239
Djibouti 3
Dominica, Commonwealth of 233
Dominican Republic 132
East Germany 13
Ecuador 9
Egypt 34
El Salvador 1
Ethiopia 4
Falkland Islands and Dependencies 6
Faroe Islands 1
Fiji 27
Finland 35
France 4,520
Gabon 1
Gambia 5
Ghana 44
Gibraltar 277
Greece 639
Grenada 298
Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Reunion Island 6
Guatemala 3
Guernsey 4,489
Guyana 124
Haiti 1
Honduras 2
Hong Kong 331
Hungary 138
Iceland 17
India 2,580
Indonesia 13
Iraq 3
Irish Republic 38,744
Israel 1,891
Italy 6,974
Jamaica 9,327
Japan 42
Jersey 5,652
Jordan 7
Kenya 345
Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) 2
Kuwait 6
Lebanon 26
Lesotho 6

Country Number
Liberia 4
Libyan Arab Republic- 2
Luxembourg 49
Madagascar 2
Malawi 38
Malaya 45
Malta 1,480
Mauritius 87
Mexico 56
Monaco 160
Montserrat 180
Morocco 28
Mozambique 1
Nauru, Republic of 2
Nepal 14
Netherlands 1,598
Netherlands Antilles 6
New Zealand 23,167
Nigeria 69
Norfolk Island 11
Norway 119
Oman 8
Pakistan 3,369
Panama 7
Papua New Guinea 17
Peru 34
Philippines 34
Poland 2,459
Portugal (including Madeira) 1,131
Puerto Rico 3
Qatar 6
Rumania 19
Rwanda 2
St. Helena and Dependencies 30
St. Kitts-Nevis 277
St. Lucia 350
St. Vincent 237
Sarawak 2
Sark 64
Saudi Arabia 23
Senegal 8
Seychelles 24
Sierra Leone 33
Singapore 60
Solomon Islands 4
Somalia 134
South Africa 18,819
South Korea 2
South West Africa or Namibia 13
Spain (including Balearic and Canary Islands) 11,734
Sri Lanka 94
Sudan 9
Swaziland 42
Sweden 64
Switzerland 1,552
Syria 1
Taiwan 2
Tanzania 39
Thailand 31
Togo 1
Tonga 3
Trinidad and Tobago 251
Tunisia 8
Turkey 192
Turks and Caicos Islands 2
Uganda 12
United Arab Emirates 22
United States of America 32,077
USSR 741
Uruguay 16
Vanuatu (New Hebrides) 1
Venezuela 26
Virgin Islands 29
Western Samoa 7
West Germany 7,863
Yemen Arab Republic (North) 719
Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South) 87

Country Number
Yugoslavia 964
Zaire 5
Zambia 86
Zimbabwe 3,498
Travelling 42
Address not known 828
Countries not recorded (people in transit) 5,733

The following numbers live in countries in which benefit is paid at current or partially unfrozen rates.

Country Number
Austria 1,867
Belgium 2,449
Bermuda 241
Cyprus 2,159
Denmark 239
Finland 35
France 4,520
Germany, Federal Republic 7,863
Gibraltar 277
Greece 639
Guernsey 4,489
Iceland 17
Irish Republic 38,744
Israel 1,891
Italy 6,974
Jamaica 9,327
Jersey 5,652
Luxembourg 49
Malta 1,480
Mauritius 87
Netherlands 1,598
Portugal 1,131
Sark 64
Spain (including Balearic and Canary Islands) 11,734
Switzerland 1,552
Turkey 192
United States of America 32,077
Yugoslavia 964