Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 29686

Social Security Benefits: Migrants

Tabled: 6 February 2025
Answered: 11 February 2025

Question

Mr Peter Bedford

ConservativeMid Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the (a) number of migrants who have arrived in the UK in the last five years in receipt of benefits in Mid Leicestershire constituency and (b) the total value of those be

Answer

Andrew Western
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. The Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Cr...

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