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Housing Benefit

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 11039, tabled on 24 October 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming Housing Benefit were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.

Answered on

29 October 2024

The Department does not routinely collect data on the country of birth of individuals claiming any benefits.

DWP policy responsibility lies in establishing a customer’s eligibility to claim benefits. An individual’s specific country of birth does not play a role in this and the Department therefore does not collect the country of birth information at the point of benefit claim.

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