Steve Webb
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the answer of 9 September 2009, Official Report, column 1929W, on state retirement pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women who reached state pension age between 6 April 2008 and 5 April 2009 have taken up the option of buying back one or more years of class 3 national insurance contributions under the measures contained in the Pensions Act 2008 to date; and how much has been paid back in contributions by such individuals to date.
Sarah McCarthy-Fry
Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury
The information request is provided in the table:
| Total | NI contributions (£) | |
| Men | 130 | 217,900 |
| Women | 893 | 1,492,741 |
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