Question follow-through · 47929
Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people in receipt of a pension in the (a) 2025-26, (b) 2026-27, (c) 2027-28 and (c) 2028-29 financial years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people in receipt of a pension in the (a) 2025-26, (b) 2026-27, (c) 2027-28 and (c) 2028-29 financial years.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The estimated total number of people in receipt of State Pension in the 2025-26 to 2028-29 financial years is available in the following table. This is from the latest Benefit Expenditure and Caseload tables published following Spring Statement 2025. This...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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