Universal Credit: Refugees

(asked on 24th March 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
(Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the total cost to the public purse of universal credit payments to households where (a) one and (b) both claimants are refugees in each quarter since 2017.

Answered by
Andrew Western Portrait
Andrew Western
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th March 2025

The Department has no current plans to make such an estimate.

However, the Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit customers.

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