Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of refugees are (a) employed, (b) unemployed, (c) in receipt of Universal Credit and (d) in receipt of other social security benefits.

The Department does not hold the information to produce the requested calculation.

Data on the total number of individuals with refugee status is held by the Home Office.

For a) and b), it is not possible to produce this information using the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey (LFS).

For part c), the Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit customers including refugees.

For part d), the Department does not hold the requested information on refugees in receipt of social security benefits other than Universal Credit.