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Social Security Benefits: Migrants

Asked by Sir Mel StrideConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 14 July 2025UIN 66135

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) welfare payments and (b) other services paid to people with indefinite leave to remain in each financial year since 2019-20 onwards.

Answered by Darren Jones

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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