Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have no recourse to public funds under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

We do not have estimates of the number of migrants in the UK who are in the UK and subject to no recourse to public funds (NRPF) at any given time. All visitors to the UK are subject to NRPF as are all illegal migrants

The Office for National Statistics publishes quarterly statistics for those who enter or extend their stay in the UK, the vast majority of whom will have the NRPF condition attached to their leave, but these statistics are unable to capture all of those in the UK subject to NRPF.