Question follow-through · 18586

Migrants: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of families that have no recourse to public funds.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
11 Dec 2024
Answer
17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of families that have no recourse to public funds.

  2. 11 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The availability of data in respect of the number of families that have No Recourse to Public Funds condition is currently limited, while the Home Office transitions its casework operations to a new management information system until the transition proce...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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