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Social Security Benefits: Migrant Workers

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 5 February 2025UIN 27476

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of low skilled migrants' entitlement to benefits on the public purse.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

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

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