Immigrants: Lewisham

(asked on 8th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people living in (a) Lewisham Deptford constituency and (b) the London borough of Lewisham who have no recourse to public funds.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 16th May 2019

The Home Office does not hold the data requested and information on the UK’s resident population is a matter for the independent Office for National Statistics. The no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition is applied to the leave of most migrants in the UK as a legitimate means of maintaining and protecting our economic resources.

In those cases where leave has been, or is being, granted for family or private life reasons the NRPF condition can be lifted on application to the Home Office if that is necessary to meet the welfare needs of children. In addition, immigration legislation specifically provides for children to remain eligible for support from a local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, and an assessment of welfare needs will be part of providing that support.

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