Question follow-through · 93199
Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals
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.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2025
Question tabled
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.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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