Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children born in the UK are ineligible to access public funds as a result of their parents having no recourse to public funds.

Where recourse to public funds is not automatic, leave to remain in the UK is normally granted with a condition of No Recourse to Public Funds unless to prevent destitution.

Children are normally granted the same conditions as their parent, however, data is not held on Home Office systems in a format that can be interrogated to report on the number of children born or currently living in the UK who have a no recourse to public funds condition applied to their grant of leave due to their parents.