Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time is for people granted refugee status from discontinuation of S95 support to the start of mainstream benefits.
The Home Office does not hold the information requested. Once an asylum seeker has been granted refugee status they are entitled to apply for mainstream benefits through the normal processes like any other applicant. The Department for Work and Pensions does not separately record those that have been granted refugee status.