§ Mr. KnoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his latest estimate of the numbers and percentages of(a) men and (b) women above state pension age, who do not receive any national insurance benefit.
§ Miss WiddecombeIt is estimated that at March 1991 about 110,000 men (3.0 per cent.) and 580,000 women (8.5 per cent.) over state pension age did not receive a national insurance benefit. These numbers include those who received only the graduated benefit element of the retirement pension, but do not show receipt of non-contributory retirement pensions nor income-related benefits (available to those with insufficient resources).
Note: These estimates are subject to a considerable degree of uncertainty (rounding is to the nearest 10,000).