Universal Credit: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 20th February 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the total cost to the public purse of universal credit payments for foreign nationals in the last 5 years.


Answered by
Andrew Western Portrait
Andrew Western
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 24th February 2026

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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