Question follow-through · 43599
Pensioners: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in receipt of Housing Benefit are not claiming Pension Credit.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in receipt of Housing Benefit are not claiming Pension Credit.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
Using the latest published benefit combinations statistics from Stat-Xplore, out of the 1.24m benefit claimants of state pension age in Great Britain receiving Housing Benefit in August 2024, 448,500 were not in receipt of Pension Credit. A DWP benefit cl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Pension Credit: Take-up
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Disability: Voluntary Work
15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to increase volunteering opportunities for disabled people.
Pension Funds: Fossil Fuels
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