§ Mr. GroganTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how many women did not claim their state pension on reaching the age of 60 in the year 1997–98; [49079]
(2) how many men did not claim the state pension on reaching the age of 65 years in 1997–98. [49100]
§ Mr. DenhamThe information requested is not available. Information for 1995–96 on the number of men and women who have entitlement to Retirement Pension (RP) and have contacted the Department to say that they wish to defer claiming their pension is set out in the table.
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Number of pensioners not claiming their RP Men aged 65 years Women aged 60 years Deferred claim 3,000 3,000 Source:
The Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB), a 1 per cent. sample of the National Insurance Recording System taken at February 1997. Analyses cover Great Britain and numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand