Social Security Benefits: Migrants

(asked on 6th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of expenditure on each major working-age benefit was accounted for by claimants from non-UK immigration status groups in (1) 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024, and (2) 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025.


Answered by
Baroness Sherlock Portrait
Baroness Sherlock
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 20th October 2025

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.

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