§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list for the most recent date for which figures are available the number of people from each of the successor states to the former Yugoslavia who were claiming social security benefits in the United Kingdom under the 1958 bilateral social security agreement.[126538]
§ Mr. RookerThe information is not available in the format requested from the Department's records. These are held on a computer system which identifies the country of current residence, but does not identify whether or not a reciprocal agreement has been used to enhance title to UK benefits.
87WThe records do show how many customers we have living in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, but without examination of each individual case we cannot say whether they have benefited from the agreement.
Numbers living in the countries of the former Yugoslavia Number Republic of Slovenia 88 Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina 25 Republic of Croatia 229 The Former Republic of Macedonia 23 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 473