Rupert Lowe MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Non-contributory Benefits: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has considered restricting access to non-contributory benefits for non-UK nationals until they have completed a minimum qualifying period of lawful residence and tax contribution.
Answer: On 20 November my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary launched a consultation on proposals for a fairer pathway to settlement, the point at which foreign nationals generally gain access to public funds. These plans include doubling the standard qualifyin...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Fraud and MaladministrationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93206More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish an annual breakdown of benefit fraud and error by nationality and immigration status of the claimant.
Answer: The Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: MigrantsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93205More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that individuals whose immigration status no longer entitles them to public funds are automatically removed from benefit systems; and how many such removals have t
Answer: Universal Credit systems carry out daily automatic checks against Home Office data to identify any changes in immigration status, and subsequently, DWP caseworkers stop claims where the individual no longer has an immigration status that permits recourse ...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93204More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of benefit fraud identified in the last five years involved individuals whose immigration status was later found to be (a) overstayer, (b) illegal entrant or (c) failed asylum seeker.
Answer: The Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: AsylumDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93203More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) asylum seeker status, (b) refused asylum seeker status and (c) no lawful immigration status are in receipt of benefit support; and what the annual cost of that support is.
Answer: People without valid UK immigration status are prohibited from accessing public funds benefits, including asylum seekers and those refused asylum in the UK. People with a pending asylum application may be able to claim asylum support provided by the Home ...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department routinely records the nationality and immigration status of claimants in cases of proven benefit fraud.
Answer: The Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93200More
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.
Answer: The Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93199More
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.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-UK nationals are in receipt of (a) Universal Credit, (b) legacy working-age benefits and (c) child-related benefits by nationality.
Answer: The Department publishes Universal Credit (UC) immigration status and nationality statistics as part of the Universal Credit statistics publication. These statistics can be found on https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-statistics-29-a...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Fraud and MaladministrationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93197More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of savings from halving levels of benefit fraud and error by 2030.
Answer: Since Autumn Budget 2024, including the new announcements at Autumn Budget 2025, the Government have committed to gross savings of £14.6bn up to the end of 2030/31 from fraud, error and debt activity in Great Britain. Estimates of the levels of fraud and ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93196More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department were employed in tackling benefit fraud in (a) 2025 and (b) 2020.
Answer: Since Autumn Budget 24, including the new announcements at Autumn Budget 25, the Government have committed to gross savings of £14.6bn up to the end of 2030/31 from fraud, error and debt activity in GB. The Government is committed to ensuring that public ...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were terminated in the last 12 months as a result of fraud investigations; and what the estimated value of those claims was.
Answer: Since Autumn Budget 2024, including the new announcements at Autumn Budget 2025, the Government have committed to gross savings of £14.6bn up to the end of 2030/31 from fraud, error and debt activity in the welfare state in Great Britain. Information on t...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Fraud and MaladministrationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93194More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of benefit expenditure was lost to (a) claimant fraud, (b) official error and (c) customer error in each of the last five years.
Answer: Since Autumn Budget 2024, including the new announcements at Autumn Budget 2025, the Government have committed to gross savings of £14.6bn up to the end of 2030/31 from fraud, error and debt activity in Great Britain. Estimates of the levels of fraud and ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Fraud and MaladministrationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93193More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much benefit expenditure was lost to fraud and error in the most recent year for which figures are available by benefit type.
Answer: Since Autumn Budget 2024, including the new announcements at Autumn Budget 2025, the Government have committed to gross savings of £14.6bn up to the end of 2030/31 from fraud, error and debt activity in Great Britain. Estimates of the levels of fraud and ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Foreign Nationals and RefugeesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Universal Credit was paid to (a) foreign nationals and (b) households with refugee status in October 2025.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordLarge Goods Vehicles: Foreign NationalsDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the value of outstanding Dartford Crossing fines for foreign HGV drivers.
Answer: The Department does not release this information on the grounds that it could prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs by undermining the collection of Dart Charge.
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordLarge Goods Vehicles: Speed LimitsHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of sharing information between Border Force and Kent Police on HGV drivers that repeatedly break the speed limit.
Answer: The allocation of resources and deployment of officers in Kent is an operational matter for Kent Police’s Chief Constables to determine in line with local policing plans and in conjunction with their Police and Crime Commissioners.Excess speed is a major ...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffendersHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data the Police National Computer holds on the number of offences committed in the last 12 months, by where the offender was born.
Answer: The Police National Computer (PNC) is a system that provides real-time access to criminal records of offenders, vehicle data, and other information relevant to policing. The PNC retains records by individual suspects and offenders rather than by offences....
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Telephone ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92891More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many telephone operators work on the Universal Credit helpline by the nationality of those operators.
Answer: We do not centrally hold the nationality of Universal Credit call handlers and to provide the information would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Telephone ServicesTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92890More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many telephone operators work on the HMRC employers general enquiries line by the nationality of those operators.
Answer: HMRC does not have information readily available identifying the nationality of staff working on specific telephone enquiry lines. Obtaining this information would require a manual process which would exceed the cost threshold for answering parliamentary ...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Telephone ServicesTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92887More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many telephone operators work on the HMRC self-assessment line by the nationality of those operators.
Answer: HMRC does not have information readily available identifying the nationality of staff working on specific telephone enquiry lines. Obtaining this information would require a manual process which would exceed the cost threshold for answering parliamentary ...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: InsuranceDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92796More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 19 November 2025 to question 91631 on Motor Vehicles: Insurance, if she will make it the Department’s policy to collect data on (i) the number and proportion of collisions involving un
Answer: The department currently has no plans to collect this data. As outlined in my response on data held about uninsured drivers, the Road Traffic Act 1988 requires all drivers to have third party insurance cover and measures are in place to deter uninsured dr...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: GazaHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92795More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 17 November 2025 to question 81592 Medical Treatments: Gaza, for the total number of accompanying adults that have entered the UK under the Gaza Injured Children Scheme.
Answer: The information requested is not available from published statistics. Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, th...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Treatments: GazaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92794More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 17 November 2025 to question 81592 on Medical Treatments: Gaza, what the estimated total cost of the programme will be to the public purse.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 17 November 2025 to Question 81587.
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: InjunctionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92793More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many super-injunctions relating to the Government are in place.
Answer: The Government does not publish or hold centralised data on the number of super-injunctions currently in place, due to the sensitive and often confidential nature of such orders.Where such orders are made, they are typically issued by the High Court under...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
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