Question follow-through · 107420

Universal Credit: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit awards were made following the application of an exception to a No Recourse to Public Funds condition in each of the last three years.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

About this written question

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 21 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 28 Jan 2026
Answer: 2 Feb 2026 · 12 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

21 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit awards were made following the application of an exception to a No Recourse to Public Funds condition in each of the last three years.
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
This information is not held centrally by DWP, and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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