Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 93200

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

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 he has made of the proportion of identified benefit fraud cases in which the claimant was a non-UK national in the last five years.

Answer

Andrew Western
The Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.