FOI reference: FOI-2025-2670
You asked
Please can you confirm the number of people making claims to the UK benefits system, this is to include any with a foreign address who may not be located in the UK.
This is the total number, not a break down by benefit.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding claims to the UK benefits system.
We only hold limited subsets of information relating to the number of benefit claimants, which are necessary for producing our statistics.
Comprehensive benefit information is held by the Department for Work and Pensions and published in their DWP benefits statistical summary. They also publish this information via their Stat-Xplore tool.
For further information on their benefit statistics and the information they publish, you can contact the DWP Benefits Statistics team on benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk.