Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of lodgers who have been evicted or are at risk of eviction as a result of having no recourse to public funds status since March 2020.
The Department does not hold data on the number of lodgers evicted or the reason for the eviction.
The Government is committed to make sure the very vulnerable are protected and that is why, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we have made many protections available to migrants with no recourse to public funds, such as the Job Retention Scheme
Local authorities may also provide basic safety net support, regardless of immigration status, where there are community care needs, migrants with serious health problems or family cases where the wellbeing of a child is in question.