HC Deb 09 November 2000 vol 356 cc317-8W
Mr. Goggins

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people over the State Pension age(a) have no entitlement to the basic State Pension and (b) are not entitled to the full value of the basic State Pension. [138207]

Mr. Darling

An estimated 460,000 people of pensionable age in Great Britain have no entitlement to the basic State Pension. A further 890,000 people in receipt of the basic State Pension are not entitled to the full value of the Category A pension (in the case of men and single women) or the full Category BL rate (in the case of married women).

Notes:

  1. 1. Estimates are based on a 5 per cent. sample and are therefore subject to sampling error.
  2. 2. Estimates are rounded to the nearest 10,000

Source:

Pension Strategy Computer System at 31 March 2000.