Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2024 to Question 12868 on Habitual Residence Test, how many habitual residency tests for Universal Credit there were, excluding factual habitual residency tests, in each of the last five years.

Habitual Residence Tests (HRT) always assess whether individuals are factually habitually resident. For an individual to be factually habitually resident they must have been living here for a significant period of time and have a settled intention to remain. There were therefore no HRTs over the past 5 years which excluded an assessment of factual habitual residence.