New Clause 29 - Pension position of women

Part of Pensions Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:15 pm on 27 April 2004.

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Photo of Nigel Waterson Nigel Waterson Conservative, Eastbourne 4:15, 27 April 2004

Does the Minister have the estimated figures for the number of women contained in the nearly 2 million people who are not claiming pension credit and the 1.4 million who, his Department assumes, will never get round to claiming it, although entitled to do so? What proportion of those does he think are women?