Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department holds information on Polish citizens resident in Poland claiming benefits from the UK.

The information requested is not readily available or held centrally. To provide it would incur disproportionate costs.

The Department does, though, publish statistics on the number of State Pension recipients in Poland on Stat Xplore at Stat-Xplore - Log in. This does not give claimant nationality.

Certain UK benefits, including the State Pension, may continue to be paid to eligible individuals resident in Poland under the social security coordination provisions of the EU Withdrawal Agreement and the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.