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166851

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what effect they expect the Prime Minister’s proposals for curbs on welfare benefits for European Union migrants to have if implemented.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>In his speech on 28 November, the Prime Minister announced a number of proposals to restrict EU migrants’ access to welfare benefits. He made clear that the intention of his proposals was to make the immigration system fairer and reduce the current high level of migration from within the EU into the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2014 12:14:09 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

444461

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual cost of the in-work benefits for EU workers, of which the Prime Minister is negotiating to delay payment.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL5012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer given by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for Employment (Ms Patel) in the House of Commons on 20 November 2015 to Question number 211618.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 27/01/2016 17:19:14 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

449186

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 30 December 2015 (HL4654), what (1) in-work, and (2) out-of-work, benefits were paid to recent EU migrants in households supported by the benefits system as at March 2013.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
	uin	HL5696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer given by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for Employment (Ms. Esther McVey) in the House of Commons on 20 November 2014 to Question number 211618 as below:</p><p>While the Government checks the immigration status of benefit claimants to ensure the benefit is paid properly and to prevent fraud, traditionally that information has not been collected as part of the payment administrative systems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has made a radical series of changes over the last year to restrict the access by non-UK citizens from the European Economic Area to UK benefits and tax credits. This is in order to protect the UK’s benefit system and discourage people who have no established connection with the UK from moving here, unless they have a job or a genuine prospect of work, or have savings to support themselves until they do.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5697 HL5698 HL5699 question first answered 15/02/2016 15:51:39 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

449187

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the duration of (1) in-work, and (2) out-of-work, benefits paid to all recent EU migrants in households supported by the benefits system as at March 2013.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
	uin	HL5697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer given by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for Employment (Ms. Esther McVey) in the House of Commons on 20 November 2014 to Question number 211618 as below:</p><p>While the Government checks the immigration status of benefit claimants to ensure the benefit is paid properly and to prevent fraud, traditionally that information has not been collected as part of the payment administrative systems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has made a radical series of changes over the last year to restrict the access by non-UK citizens from the European Economic Area to UK benefits and tax credits. This is in order to protect the UK’s benefit system and discourage people who have no established connection with the UK from moving here, unless they have a job or a genuine prospect of work, or have savings to support themselves until they do.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5696 HL5698 HL5699 question first answered 15/02/2016 15:51:39 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

449188

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the average (1) in-work, and (2) out-of-work, benefits paid to all recent EU migrants supported by the benefits system as at March 2013.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
	uin	HL5698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer given by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for Employment (Ms. Esther McVey) in the House of Commons on 20 November 2014 to Question number 211618 as below:</p><p>While the Government checks the immigration status of benefit claimants to ensure the benefit is paid properly and to prevent fraud, traditionally that information has not been collected as part of the payment administrative systems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has made a radical series of changes over the last year to restrict the access by non-UK citizens from the European Economic Area to UK benefits and tax credits. This is in order to protect the UK’s benefit system and discourage people who have no established connection with the UK from moving here, unless they have a job or a genuine prospect of work, or have savings to support themselves until they do.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5696 HL5697 HL5699 question first answered 15/02/2016 15:51:39 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

449189

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of all (1) in-work, and (2) out-of-work, benefits paid in the UK as at March 2013 was received by recent EU migrants.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
	uin	HL5699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer given by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for Employment (Ms. Esther McVey) in the House of Commons on 20 November 2014 to Question number 211618 as below:</p><p>While the Government checks the immigration status of benefit claimants to ensure the benefit is paid properly and to prevent fraud, traditionally that information has not been collected as part of the payment administrative systems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has made a radical series of changes over the last year to restrict the access by non-UK citizens from the European Economic Area to UK benefits and tax credits. This is in order to protect the UK’s benefit system and discourage people who have no established connection with the UK from moving here, unless they have a job or a genuine prospect of work, or have savings to support themselves until they do.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5696 HL5697 HL5698 question first answered 15/02/2016 15:51:39 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

450521

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 27 January (HL5012), why that answer provided a reference to a Written Answer in the House of Commons given by the then Minister of State for the Department of Work and Pensions, Esther McVey, on 20 November 2014 on a different subject to the question asked; and whether they will now state what is the annual cost of the in-work benefits for EU workers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL5883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>I apologise to the noble Lord for the incorrect answer to HL5012 this was due to an administrative error. The correct answer was given by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for Employment (Ms. Esther McVey) in the House of Commons on 20 November 2014 to Question number 211618 as below:</p><p> </p><p>While the Government checks the immigration status of benefit claimants to ensure the benefit is paid properly and to prevent fraud, traditionally that information has not been collected as part of the payment administrative systems.</p><p>However, the Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p><p>The Government has made a radical series of changes over the last year to restrict the access by non-UK citizens from the European Economic Area to UK benefits and tax credits. This is in order to protect the UK’s benefit system and discourage people who have no established connection with the UK from moving here, unless they have a job or a genuine prospect of work, or have savings to support themselves until they do.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 10/02/2016 15:02:57 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

450525

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of EU immigrants were in receipt of benefit payments during the last two years for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
	uin	HL5887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The information on benefit receipt by nationality is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published statistics on working age benefit recipients claiming within 6 months of National Insurance Number (NINO) registration. This information is known as “Nationality at point of National Insurance number registration of DWP benefit claimants” and is included in the “Statistical Bulletin on National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals”.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5888 HL5890 question first answered 10/02/2016 15:14:48 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

450526

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the cost of benefit payments to EU immigrants during the last two years for which data are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
	uin	HL5888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The information on benefit receipt by nationality is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published statistics on working age benefit recipients claiming within 6 months of National Insurance Number (NINO) registration. This information is known as “Nationality at point of National Insurance number registration of DWP benefit claimants” and is included in the “Statistical Bulletin on National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals”.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5887 HL5890 question first answered 10/02/2016 15:14:48 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

450528

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of total annual benefit payments are paid to EU immigrants.
	tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
	uin	HL5890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The information on benefit receipt by nationality is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published statistics on working age benefit recipients claiming within 6 months of National Insurance Number (NINO) registration. This information is known as “Nationality at point of National Insurance number registration of DWP benefit claimants” and is included in the “Statistical Bulletin on National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals”.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5887 HL5888 question first answered 10/02/2016 15:14:48 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

450623

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much is paid in benefits to claimants who are citizens of each of the 27 other EU member states, and how many such claimants there are from each of those countries.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL5924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>Information on benefit receipt by nationality is not available.</p><p>The Department has published statistics on working age benefit recipients claiming within 6 months of National Insurance Number (NINO) registration. This information is known as “Nationality at point of National Insurance number registration of DWP benefit claimants” and is included in the “Statistical Bulletin on National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals”.</p><p>The Government is looking at ways to reform the current administrative system under Universal Credit so that it will systematically record nationality and immigration status of migrants who make a claim.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 10/02/2016 15:13:30 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

452294

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 10 February (HL5883), why the incorrect reference to the 20 November 2014 answer has been repeated, and whether they will now state what is the annual cost of paying in-work benefits to non-UK citizens from other EU countries in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL6195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>The November 2014 answer (HL 5012) incorrectly referred to question number 211618 as having been responded to by Priti Patel, when in fact the answer was provided by Esther McVey.</p><p> </p><p>I would like to apologise again for this, but would like to be clear that the mistake was to incorrectly state the name of the Minister providing the original response (211618)) and did not relate to the question number. Both responses HL 5012 and 5883 correctly referred the Honourable Lord to question number 211618.</p><p> </p><p>The original reference to question 211618 was provided because the information has not changed; information on benefit receipt by nationality is not available.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 25/02/2016 17:35:57 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

457366

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Faulks on 2 March (HL Deb, col 928), how many of those families of EU migrants in the UK that are supported by the benefits system, and which include at least one member who has arrived in the last four years, include (1) an adult member recorded for these purposes as of UK nationality, and (2) an adult member recorded for these purposes as a non-UK national who has not arrived in the last four years, where "recorded for these purposes" relates to nationality at the time the person was first issued with a National Insurance Number.
	tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
	uin	HL6692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 17/03/2016 13:07:55 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

93699

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Romanians and Bulgarians have sought social security benefits that were inaccessible before 1 January 2014; and how many such nationals are currently in receipt of child benefit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL2128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government does not record the nationality of the claimant receiving social security benefits including child benefit.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 20/10/2014 14:29:56 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird