Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were granted an extension to their Leave to Remain in the last 12 months with No Recourse to Public Funds conditions.
In the year ending June 2020, there were 357,273 extensions of stay in the UK granted, the majority of which
would have the No Recourse to Public Funds condition imposed. See Exe_01: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/910110/extentions-summary-jun-2020-tables.xlsx
Across in-country extension routes (not including Settlement), only the ‘family and human rights’ categories have the No Recourse to Public Funds lifted at the initial decision point. All other grants of limited leave(as shown in published statistics) would have the NRPF condition applied. Should a person’s financial circumstances change and they are on a ‘family and human rights’ category, then they may apply for the NRPF condition to be lift through a Destitution Change of Circumstances application. Data on Destitution Change of Circumstances can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-protection-data-august-2020.
The table below shows further analysis of the initial decision for grants, in the year ending June 2020, made in those routes where the condition may not have been applied, giving an indication of how many grantsdo not have the No Recourse to Public Funds condition imposed at this initial point of extension.
|
| No Recourse to Public Funds | Recourse to Public Funds | % No Recourse to Public Funds |
2019 Q3 | In-country 'family' extensions | 27,768 | 2,993 | 90% |
2019 Q4 | In-country 'family' extensions | 25,314 | 3,222 | 89% |
2020 Q1 | In-country 'family' extensions | 21,411 | 2,608 | 89% |
2020 Q2 | In-country 'family' extensions | 6,720 | 1,080 | 86% |
Across in-country extension routes (not including Settlement), only the ‘family and human rights’ categories have the No Recourse to Public Funds lifted at the initial decision point. All other grants of limited leave would have the NRPF condition applied. Should a person’s financial circumstances change, then they may apply for the NRPF condition to be lift through a Destitution Change of Circumstances. Data on Destitution
Change of Circumstances can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-protection-data-august-2020.