Mr. John M. TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what the ratio was between the number of people in work and the number of recipients of State Retirement Pension in(a) 1971, (b) 1981, (c) 1991 and (d) 2001; and what the projected ratio is for 2011. [155122]
§ Mr. RookerThe information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table.
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Number of people in work compared with number of recipients of State Retirement Pension: Great Britain People of working age in employment 1.2.3 People in receipt of State Retirement Pension (RP)6.7.8.9 Ratio between number of people in work and number receiving RP 1971 — 7,647 n/a 19814 22,767 9,080 2.5 19914.5 25,030 9,991 2.5 2001 — 11,000 n/a 2011 — 12,370 n/a 1Source: ONS Labour Force Survey figures, taken in the spring of each year, not seasonally adjusted. 1971, 2001 and 2011 figures are not available. 2 Men aged 16–64 and women aged 16–59. 3People aged 16 or over who did some paid work in the reference week (whether as an employee or self-employed); and those who had a job they were temporarily away from (eg on holiday); those on Government-supported training and employment programmes (from spring 1983); and those doing unpaid family work (from spring 1992). 4Includes those whose status was not stated.
5Includes those on Government-supported training and employment programmes.
6Source: 1971, 1981 and 1991 RP figures from DSS ASD, and are December, June and March respectively, based on a 10 per cent. sample taken from the Pension Strategy Computer System 2001 and 2011 figures are GAD mix-tax year projections, and are consistent with December 2000/Budget 2001 PES estimates.
7Historic RP figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand, projections (2001 and 2011) to the nearest ten thousand.
8Includes Overseas RP Cases.
9RP figures exclude Additional Pension only and Graduated Pension only cases—about 150,000 cases in 1981—except for 1971 figure, which includes such cases.