Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) UK nationals and (b) EU nationals from outside the UK are (i) in work, (ii) in receipt of jobseeker's allowance and (iii) in receipt of employment and support allowance.

Statistics on employment of UK and EU nationals is already published by the Office for National Statistics. The latest information is available at:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/december-2015/table-emp06.xls

Information on benefit receipt by current 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 latest benefits data, covering February 2015, is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/456074/nino-registrations-adult-overseas-nationals-june-2015.pdf