Migrants

(asked on 19th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were issued for the first time with Leave to Remain in the UK, subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds condition, in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 3rd February 2022

We are able to provide data relating to initial extensions to temporary stay in the UK (further Leave to Remain) under the HR/Complex, Spouse/Partner and Other Non-PBS routes.

This information should be interpreted within the following context:

  1. This data is considered provisional management information, is taken from a live database, and is therefore subject to change.
  2. The categories included are intended for internal reporting and do not necessarily align with categories used in other published statistics.
  3. Subsequent consideration against these cases, such as an application for Change of Conditions, may mean that the No Recourse to Public Funds condition is no longer imposed on some cases.
  4. This data should not be relied on as an indication of how many migrants with Leave to Remain on any single or all route(s) are present in the UK at any given time or over a given period.
  5. This data does not include overseas applications for Leave to Enter where the vast majority of applications have No Recourse to Public Funds imposed.
  6. This data does not include in-country extensions on other routes; for example, work or study routes where the No Recourse to Public Funds condition is imposed in all cases, or Leave to Remain granted to refugees or Discretionary Leave to Remain where the No Recourse to Public Funds condition is not applied.
  7. Comprehensive data on visas granted is published by the Home Office each quarter at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
  8. The figures below do not align with figures provided in a previous PQ and published statistics. This is because, while the internal reporting figures below are produced from the same source data as the published statistics, they are categorised differently.
  9. This data does not reflect the impact of the NRPF condition on the people to which it applies.

In country extensions with NRPF

Total in-country extensions subject to NRPF (%)

2017 Q1

15,500

92%

2017 Q2

14,000

91%

2017 Q3

19,900

91%

2017 Q4

23,000

89%

2018 Q1

23,400

89%

2018 Q2

21,200

91%

2018 Q3

22,400

92%

2018 Q4

25,500

89%

2019 Q1

28,200

88%

2019 Q2

26,200

90%

2019 Q3

29,200

89%

2019 Q4

26,300

85%

2020 Q1

22,100

86%

2020 Q2

6,900

84%

2020 Q3

12,000

82%

2020 Q4

28,800

85%

2021 Q1

31,100

83%

2021 Q2

29,300

82%

2021 Q3

30,300

88%

2021 Q4

27,400

84%

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