Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 93204
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, how many cases of benefit fraud identified in the last five years involved individuals whose immigration status was later found to be (a) overstayer, (b) illegal entrant or (c) failed asylum seeker.
Answer
Andrew WesternThe Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.