Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of Universal Credit were born outside the UK in each of the last five years.

The Department does not collect data on the country of birth of individuals claiming Universal Credit.

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 a Universal Credit claim.