Christopher Chope – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Prime Minister

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Christopher Chope on 2016-02-04.

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral contribution of 3 February 2016, Official Report, column 939, what the source is of the statistics he quoted.

Mr David Cameron

The figures were taken from analysis carried out by DWP and HMRC on benefit and Tax Credit claims by recently arrived EEA migrants.