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Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 27 November 2025UIN 93199

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the value of benefit expenditure paid to non-UK nationals in the last financial year by benefit type.

Answered by Andrew Western

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

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