| Heading: |
Universal Credit: Refugees |
| Question ID: |
1787579 |
| UIN: |
40564 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4679 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Neil O'Brien
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| Asking Member handle: |
NeilDotObrien
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@NeilDotObrien
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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 universal credit payments to households where (a) one and (b) both claimants are refugees in each quarter since 2017. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Answer text: |
The Department has no current plans to make such an estimate. However, the Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit customers. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |