Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of recipients of the state pension living overseas in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

Justin Tomlinson

Estimates of the number of recipients of the State Pension living overseas in each of the last 10 years are published on the DWP Tabulation Tool. The numbers from November 2012 can be seen in the column ‘Claimants living abroad’, and prior to this in the column ‘Unknown’ of this table:

http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/sp/ccdate/ccgor/a_carate_r_ccdate_c_ccgor.html

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