Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 27 March 2025.
Neil O'Brien
Shadow Minister (Education)
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.
Andrew Western
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The 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.
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