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