Asked by: Lord Turnberg (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of total annual benefit payments are paid to EU immigrants.
Answered by Lord Freud
The information on benefit receipt by nationality is not available.
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”.
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.
Asked by: Lord Turnberg (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
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.
Answered by Lord Freud
The information on benefit receipt by nationality is not available.
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”.
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.
Asked by: Lord Turnberg (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
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.
Answered by Lord Freud
The information on benefit receipt by nationality is not available.
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”.
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.
Asked by: Lord Turnberg (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to increase the rate of full-time employment of adults with autism above the current level of 15 per cent.
Answered by Baroness Altmann
DWP produced an Autism action-plan in 2013 to support the improvement of service provision and increase work opportunities for people with autism.
DWP is a member of the Autism Programme Board and in response to the Think Autism strategy, we are working co-productively with a large number of stakeholders to implement a range of activities to support this remit - and ensure that staff are providing the best possible support to people with autism when looking for work.
Promoting the employment of people with autism is also being taken forward as part of the Disability Confident campaign.