§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his oral statement of 9 November 2000,Official Report, column 452, what was the basis of his calculation that one in six pensioner couples are retiring on income of more than £20,000 per annum; and if he will disaggregate this income by average amount earned from each source using the categories in the Pensioners Incomes Series. [139839]
§ Mr. RookerThe Pensioners Incomes Series data set was based on the Family Resources Survey (FRS) 1998–99, a copy of which is in the Library.
§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his oral statement of 9 November 2000,Official Report, column 452, that one in six pensioner couples retire on an income above £20,000, what proportion of (a) single pensioners and (b) pensioners in total retire on an income above £20,000. [139840]
§ Mr. RookerI refer my right hon. Friend to the written answer I gave him on 20 November 2000,Official Report, column 67W.