Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 40568

Employment and Support Allowance: Habitual Residence Test

Tabled: 24 March 2025

Answered: 27 March 2025

Named Day

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

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 Employment and Support Allowance payments to households containing at least one claimant that passed a habitual residence test in ea

Answer

Andrew Western

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