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answer › question first answered	2017-07-04T12:00:48.873Z
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
max answer › question first answered	2019-05-15T12:39:20.147Z

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27/06/2017

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people from other EU countries were in receipt of (a) unemployment benefit and (b) in-work benefits in the most recent period for which figures are available; and what the cost to the public purse was of such payments in that period.

tabling member constituency

Shipley

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Philip Davies

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1418

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is ministerial correction

date of answer

04/07/2017

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The nationality and immigration status of claimants is not currently recorded on benefit payment systems. However the Department for Work and Pensions has published some general statistics on working age benefit recipients claiming within 6 months of National Insurance Number (NINO) registration. The information requested can be found in the following report: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nationality-at-point-of-nino-registration-of-dwp-working-age-benefit-recipients-data-to-feb-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nationality-at-point-of-nino-registration-of-dwp-working-age-benefit-recipients-data-to-feb-2016</a> Information on expenditure on DWP and HMRC benefits received by EEA nationals can be found in the following reports: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502129/benefit-expenditure-eea-nationals-ad-hoc-stats.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502129/benefit-expenditure-eea-nationals-ad-hoc-stats.pdf</a> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548156/HMRC_-_Ad_Hoc_Stats_Release_-further_TC_statistics_on_EEA_Nationals_JULY_-_FINAL_23rd_August_2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548156/HMRC_-_Ad_Hoc_Stats_Release_-further_TC_statistics_on_EEA_Nationals_JULY_-_FINAL_23rd_August_2016.pdf</a>

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East Hampshire

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Damian Hinds

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04/07/2017 12:00:48

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	label	Biography information for Philip Davies