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Employment and Support Allowance: Habitual Residence Test

Asked by Neil O'BrienConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 27 March 2025UIN 40568

The question

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 Employment and Support Allowance payments to households containing at least one claimant that passed a habitual residence test in ea

Answered by Andrew Western

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

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