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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing Benefit: Foreign Nationals (13 June 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of housing benefit payments is made to non-British nationals in the last 12 months.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

Answer

Expenditure on the main DWP working age benefits, including Housing Benefit, for European Economic Area (EEA) national-led claims can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502129/benefit-expenditure-eea-nationals-ad-hoc-stats.pdf.


Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
20 June 2016

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