Clause 1 - Entitlement
State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]
4:30 pm
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 19, in page 2, line 4, at end add—
'(7) The Secretary of State shall as soon as practicable after the end of the fiscal year 2004–05 and as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year thereafter lay before Parliament a report setting out—
(a) the number of those entitled to the state pension credit;
(b) the number of those entitled to—
(i) the guarantee credit alone;
(ii) the guarantee credit and the savings credit; and
(iii) the savings credit alone;
(c) the number of entitled persons claiming the credits set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) above;
(d) the take up in terms of expenditure in respect of each of the categories set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) above;
(e) details of the steps taken to encourage those entitled to state pension credit to make a claim for it, and of the steps to advise those making such claims;
(f) representations made to the Secretary of State by the Social Security Advisory Committee or by such organisations as may seem to him representative of the interests of pensioners in connection with the operation of state pension credit.'.