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Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN HL3269, tabled on 1 December 2014

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.

Answered on

8 December 2014

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.