Question follow-through · 65168

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse for (a) Universal Credit and (b) Personal Independence Payment for non-British citizens in the (i) last 12 months and (ii) last five years.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 4 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 8 Jul 2025
Answer: 14 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse for (a) Universal Credit and (b) Personal Independence Payment for non-British citizens in the (i) last 12 months and (ii) last five years.
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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