Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 40565

Universal Credit: Habitual Residence Test

Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 27 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Neil O'Brien

ConservativeHarborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the total cost to the public purse of universal credit payments to households containing at least one claimant that passed a habitual residence test in each year since 20

Answer

Andrew Western
The Department has no current plans to make such an estimate.