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Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 27 November 2025UIN 93200

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of identified benefit fraud cases in which the claimant was a non-UK national in the last five years.

Answered by Andrew Western

The Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.

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