Lord Godson

This data is not held. Determining this would require a manual review of individual claimant applications to examine employment details, which would incur a disproportionate cost.

No estimate has been made.

No estimate has been made on the impact of AI on the number of individuals who will claim health and disability benefits over the course of this Parliament.

To access Universal Credit a person must be British, Irish, have a right of abode, or have a valid UK immigration status that permits recourse to public funds as well as meeting all the other entitlement conditions. The Department recently published Universal Credit Immigration status and Nationality summary statistics through ODS tables on GOV.UK.

For statistical production purposes, immigration status data has been categorised into 8 groups (see attached document).

Taken from the published statistics, the following table shows the number of people on Universal Credit by immigration status for each month from August 2024 to July 2025. The additional breakdowns requested for the EU Settlement Scheme are not readily available and to provide them would incur disproportionate cost.

Total number of people on Universal Credit by Immigration status each month from August 2024 to July 2025, Great Britain

Source: Universal Credit Immigration status and nationality summary statistics

Notes

1. The latest Nationality recorded on the UC system declared by the claimant, reported across all previous UC claims.
2. Immigration status is sourced from Habitual Residence Test (HRT) data. The latest immigration status is recorded and reported against the corresponding claim at the point in time it applied.
3. Aligned UCFS Nationality and HRT data are available from April 2022 onwards only.
4. Cells in these tables have had statistical disclosure control applied to avoid the release of confidential data. Due to adjustments totals may not be the sum of the individual cells.
5. Figures for the most recent month are provisional. These figures will be subject to revision in subsequent releases in line with our statistical revisions policy.
6. HRT revisions can occur and can be retrospectively applied and supersede previous decisions. Hence changes to previous months are possible.
7. If a claimant has dual nationality and one is CTA then they will be recorded as CTA - UK, Ireland, Right of Abode.
8. Non-EU individuals can be in the EUSS, such as Non-EU family members of EU citizens.
9. Non-Ukrainians/Non-Afghans can be in resettlement schemes.
10. Right of Abode individuals include some groups of Commonwealth citizens.

To access Universal Credit a person must be British, Irish, have a right of abode, or have a valid UK immigration status that permits recourse to public funds as well as meeting all the other entitlement conditions. The Department recently published Universal Credit Immigration status and Nationality summary statistics through ODS tables on GOV.UK.

For statistical production purposes, immigration status data has been categorised into 8 groups (further details provided in Table Guidance in the attached document).

Taken from the published statistics, the following table shows the number of people on Universal Credit by immigration status for each April from 2022 to 2025. Data is not held prior to April 2022.

Total number of people on Universal Credit by Immigration status for April 2022 to April 2025, Great Britain

Source: Universal Credit Immigration status and nationality summary statistics

Notes

1. The latest Nationality recorded on the UC system declared by the claimant, reported across all previous UC claims.
2. Immigration status is sourced from Habitual Residence Test (HRT) data. The latest immigration status is recorded and reported against the corresponding claim at the point in time it applied.
3. Aligned UCFS Nationality and HRT data are available from April 2022 onwards only.
4. Cells in these tables have had statistical disclosure control applied to avoid the release of confidential data. Due to adjustments totals may not be the sum of the individual cells.
5. Figures for the most recent month are provisional. These figures will be subject to revision in subsequent releases in line with our statistical revisions policy.
6. HRT revisions can occur and can be retrospectively applied and supersede previous decisions. Hence changes to previous months are possible.
7. If a claimant has dual nationality and one is CTA then they will be recorded as CTA - UK, Ireland, Right of Abode.
8. Non-EU individuals can be in the EUSS such as Non-EU family members of EU citizens.
9. Non-Ukrainians/Non-Afghans can be in resettlement schemes.
10. Right of Abode individuals include some groups of Commonwealth citizens.

The Department recently published new Universal Credit - Immigration Status and Nationality statistics. Further breakdowns of these statistics are not currently available.

The department does not hold data for other Working Age Benefits expenditure broken down by immigration status.

The Department recently published Universal Credit Immigration status and nationality summary statistics and the relevant information from those statistics is displayed in Table 1 below.

For the purpose of statistical production, immigration status data has been categorised into the following 8 groups:

• CTA – UK, Ireland, Right of Abode (British nationals, Irish nationals, and people with a right of abode in the UK do not need an immigration status to claim Universal Credit)
• EU Settlement Scheme (People with EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) Settled Status have a right to reside in the UK. People with EUSS pre-settled status, a certificate of application to the EUSS, or relevant joining family members with temporary protection will only have a qualifying right to reside if they are additionally undertaking a relevant activity, such as being a worker or self-employed, or they can derive a qualifying right to reside from a relevant family member)
• Humanitarian (includes people who hold an immigration status under safe and legal humanitarian immigration routes, for example schemes for Ukrainian and Afghan nationals and eligible members of their families)
• Refugee (includes individuals granted refugee status due to being forced to flee their country because of a well-founded fear of persecution, war, or violence)
• Indefinite Leave to Remain (not EU Settlement Scheme) (includes any individual that has Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK. This is also called ‘settlement’. It gives a person the right to live, work and study here for as long as they like and apply for benefits if they are eligible)
• Limited Leave to Remain (not EU Settlement Scheme) including family reunion (includes individuals that have a temporary immigration status in the UK with a no recourse to public fund condition but in certain circumstances may have applied to have that condition lifted and others who due to the conditions of their visa are not restricted from accessing benefits. Not included in this group are people with temporary leave categorised by DWP as Refugee, Humanitarian Protection, Afghan Scheme and Ukraine Scheme).
• Other (includes those no longer receiving UC payments, ineligible partners of an eligible UC claimant and claimants who have their decision overturned at Mandatory Reconsideration or Appeal stage)
• No immigration status recorded on digital systems (includes cases where a recorded immigration status is not held on DWP administrative data).

Table 1: Number and proportion of People on Universal Credit by immigration status and employment status June 2025, Great Britain

Source: Universal Credit Full Service (UCFS) Extract

Notes

1. The latest nationality recorded on the UC system, as declared by the claimant, reported across all previous UC claims.
2. Immigration status is sourced from Habitual Residence Test (HRT) data. The latest immigration status is recorded and reported against the corresponding claim at the point in time it applied.
3. Cells in these tables have had statistical disclosure control applied to avoid the release of confidential data. Due to adjustments totals may not be the sum of the individual cells.
4. Percentages are shown to 1 decimal place.
5. Figures for the most recent month are provisional. These figures will be subject to revision in subsequent releases in line with our statistical revisions policy.
6. HRT revisions can occur and can be retrospectively applied and supersede previous decisions. Hence changes to previous months are possible.
7. If a claimant has dual nationality and one is CTA then they will be recorded as CTA - UK, Ireland, Right of Abode.
8. Non-EU individuals can be in the EUSS, and non-EU family members of EU citizens can have EUSS status through family routes.
9. Non-Ukrainians/Non-Afghans can be in resettlement schemes
10. Right of Abode individuals include some Commonwealth citizens, assuming they fulfil the necessary criteria.

The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) programme completed at the end of March 2017. In line with our information management process DWP retains programme information for 20 years from the date of the first document. However, some of the information is not easily accessible, would require time to retrieve and analyse, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

From the available evidence we do have access to, records show that Sue Moore was appointed as the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for the programme in 2014 (Appointment letter: Senior Responsible Owner for the Personal Independence Payment Programme).

The annual Access to Work Official Statistics show expenditure on the Support Worker element within each financial year from 2007/08 to 2023/24. The latest publication can be found here: Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2024 - GOV.UK

The below table shows expenditure, in real terms (2023/24 prices), on the Support Worker element type from 2019/20 to 2023/24. These figures can be found in Table 12a of the Access to Work Official Statistics:

When interpreting results, particularly comparing time periods, please be aware of the potential effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic between 2020/21 and 2022/23.

Nominal expenditure for the Support Worker element type can be located in Table 12 of the Access to Work Official Statistics.

The table below shows the proportions of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) caseload that have undergone a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessment in each of the last five financial years (FY).

Points to note:

- Figures are for England and Wales only.

- Figures are split for children and adults. Adults include those of working age and those over state pension age.

- Reassessment statistics count individual people who have registered PIP claims that are classified as DLA reassessments, where there is a matching DLA record.

- Children are usually invited to claim PIP on or shortly after their 16th birthday. If they choose to apply for PIP this will be considered a reassessment.

Of all individuals who subsequently went on to apply for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), 37% were in employment in the month their PIP case was cleared.

Of those who were awarded PIP, 23% were still in employment after 12 months.

Notes:

• Figures are based on the 2021-22 financial year cohort where the claims have been cleared – the latest financial year of data available for the analysis.
• Data is for England and Wales only.
• Data is for New Claims only.
• Employment includes both employed and self-employed individuals.
• The 2022-23 tax records for self-employment were not available when the analysis was conducted, therefore the 2021-22 self-employment data was used as a proxy.

Access to Work provides funding towards the cost of a range of equipment, these should be items that are beyond what would normally be required under an employer’s responsibility to provide reasonable adjustments. Information on specific items of Special Aids and Equipment (SAE) for which grants were approved is not readily available. This is stored as descriptive, free-text information and would require manual examination of individual applications to analyse and therefore falls outside of the costs limit. Expenditure on SAE was £21m in 2023/24, this was the third highest of all Access to Work elements and an 82% increase in real terms compared to the previous financial year.

The department published an estimated saving for the Government of having one extra disabled person in full-time work, in July 2023. This can be found in the Consultation outcome Occupational Health: Working Better.

For Government, having one extra disabled person in full-time work, rather than being out of work and fully reliant on benefits, would mean the Government could save an estimated £18,000 a year. It could give societal savings of £28,000 a year when considering increases in output, reductions in healthcare costs and increased travel. The societal savings could increase to £34,000 a year if including Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) impacts, or £36,000 a year if including subjective wellbeing impacts. For a disabled person working part-time, the equivalent figures could be a saving to the Government of £8,000 a year, and a societal saving of £15,000 a year, rising to £19,000 a year if including QALY impacts, or £20,000 a year if including subjective wellbeing impacts.

The department publishes a range of statistics from the Annual Population Survey (APS) on the employment of disabled people. This includes the number of disabled people who were employed by workplace size. Workplace size refers to the total number of employees at the respondent’s workplace, not just the section/department or the whole organization. The APS does not collect information on the size of the whole organization, therefore only analysis on workplace size can be provided. A full time-series from 2013/14 can be found in the employment of disabled people 2024 supplementary table EMP006.

Number of disabled people in employment by workplace size, aged 16 to 64, UK

Source: The employment of disabled people 2024: Table EMP006

The number and proportion of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments carried out (a) face-to-face (b) remotely (this includes telephone and video) and (c) paper-based can be found in the tables below.

March 2020 to December 2020

2021

2022

2023

January 2024 to November 2024

Please Note

• All volumes have been rounded to the nearest 10.
• Percentages and volumes may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
• Remote assessments include telephone and video assessments.
• There are a proportion of assessments where the channel is unspecified. We have included these assessments for completion.
• All the above data is derived from contractual management information produced by the assessment suppliers
• The above data is derived from unpublished management information which is collected for internal departmental use only and has not been quality assured to Official Statistics Publication standards.

Estimates of the number of individuals who received a payment for an Access to Work element, by employer size, at the end of each of the last three financial years, are provided in the table below.

These figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and do not include payments for an Access to Work assessment. Data on the number of Access to Work recipients by employer size is not directly recorded in the Access to Work admin datasets, so these estimates are derived from information which may provide insights to employer size. They may change in future as a consequence of subsequent system updates or changes to methodology.

• 38,620 people were in receipt of payments for Access to Work provision in 2021 to 2022.

• 49,020 people were in receipt of payments for Access to Work provision in 2022 to 2023.

• 61,630 people were in receipt of payments for Access to Work provision in 2023 to 2024.

Table 6 of the latest Access to Work Official Statistics includes the number of individuals who were in receipt of Access to Work Provision within each financial year. The latest publication can be found here: Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2024 - GOV.UK

The information requested about the number of individuals who received a payment for AtW provision by sector is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Improving National Health Service staff’s health and wellbeing is a priority, recognising the link between workforce wellbeing, attendance, and high-quality patient care.

NHS England is supporting organisations to strengthen their culture, improve working conditions, and expand access to high quality occupational health and wellbeing services.

As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, we will roll out Staff Treatment hubs to ensure all staff have access to high quality occupational health support, including for mental health and musculoskeletal conditions, the two main causes of sickness absence in the NHS.

To further support this ambition, we are working with the Social Partnership Forum to introduce a new set of staff standards for modern employment.

Improving National Health Service staff’s health and wellbeing is a priority, recognising the link between workforce wellbeing, attendance, and high-quality patient care.

NHS England is supporting organisations to strengthen their culture, improve working conditions, and expand access to high quality occupational health and wellbeing services.

As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, we will roll out Staff Treatment hubs to ensure all staff have access to high quality occupational health support, including for mental health and musculoskeletal conditions, the two main causes of sickness absence in the NHS.

To further support this ambition, we are working with the Social Partnership Forum to introduce a new set of staff standards for modern employment.

Employers across the National Health Service have their own arrangements in place in line with their duty of care for supporting their staff, including occupational health provision, employee support programmes, and board level scrutiny through health and wellbeing guardians.

The 10-Year Health Plan committed to the roll out of Staff Treatment Hubs, to provide a high-quality, wellbeing and occupational health service for all NHS staff, including musculoskeletal conditions, one of the main causes of sickness absence in the NHS. Work is underway to develop implementation plans for the Staff Treatments Hubs.

We are also working with Nuffield Health to support NHS staff to access their Joint Pain Programme. The programme is aimed at those staff who are off work due to chronic joint pain or struggling with pain whilst at work and will create up to 4,000 free places annually.