Universal Credit: Habitual Residence Test

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 27 March 2025.

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Photo of Neil O'Brien 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 containing at least one claimant that passed a habitual residence test in each year since 2015.

Photo of Neil O'Brien 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 containing at least one claimant with a non-Common Travel Area nationality that passed a habitual residence test in each year since 2015.

Photo of Andrew Western Andrew Western The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

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

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