Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make representations to the Children’s Commissioner on that office undertaking an assessment of the effect on children of their parents being subject to no recourse to public funds.

The Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England (OCC) is a non-departmental public body, therefore acts with independence from the government. The OCC is currently developing the business plan for 2019/20, setting out their priorities for the year ahead, and I will ask my officials to raise this issue with the Commissioner’s Office for her consideration.