Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 82978

Employment: Universal Credit

Tabled: 17 October 2025
Answered: 27 October 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UKAshfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department holds on the number and proportion of (a) foreign and (b) UK nationals who were able to find jobs within (i) one, (ii) three and (iii) six months of starting Universal Credit in

Answer

Andrew Western
The requested information is not held and to produce it would incur disproportionate costs. Information on the number of people on UC by nationality including their employment status is published in DWP statistics here: https://www.gov.uk/government/stati...

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