| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals |
| Question ID: |
1807914 |
| UIN: |
56293 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4527 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Helen Whately
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| Asking Member handle: |
helen_whately
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@helen_whately
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-UK and Irish nationals have applied for (a) Universal Credit and (b) other welfare payments in the last 12 months. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| 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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
To access public funds benefits, individuals are required to be either a British or Irish citizen or hold an immigration status which does not prevent them from accessing public funds. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) cannot pay public funds bene... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |