Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 40564
Universal Credit: Refugees
Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 27 March 2025
Named DayQuestion
Neil O'Brien
Conservative — Harborough, 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 where (a) one and (b) both claimants are refugees in each quarter since 2017.
Answer
Andrew WesternThe Department has no current plans to make such an estimate. However, the Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit customers.