Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the amount spent on Universal Credit payments to people with refugee status in each region of the UK in each of the last ten years; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of that spending on departmental (a) planning and (b) resource allocation.

The expenditure information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.