Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the Article 8 cases sampled for the impact assessment for the Immigration and Asylum Bill involved family life with a person outside the core cohabiting family as defined in clause 18; and if she will publish the sample methodology.

There was no data collected on ‘core cohabiting families’ as part of the Article 8 case sample, which was used in the Impact Assessment for the Immigration and Asylum Bill.

Details of the sample methodology are published in the impact assessment in Annex 3.