Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 93199

Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals

Tabled: 20 November 2025
Answered: 27 November 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the value of benefit expenditure paid to non-UK nationals in the last financial year by benefit type.

Answer

Andrew Western
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.