Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 83626
Universal Credit: Refugees
Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 27 October 2025
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of Universal Credit payments made to people with refugee status in each of the last ten financial years.
Answer
Andrew WesternThe information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.