Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to recommence the publication of the number of individuals granted indefinite leave to remain as a bereaved partner as part of its quarterly statistics releases.

Due to data quality issues, data on individuals granted indefinite leave as a bereaved partner from 2021 and later cannot currently be provided. We intend to recommence the publication of these numbers once these issues have been resolved.

In 2020, 92 people were granted of indefinite leave as a bereaved partner; 84 wives and 8 husbands. Corresponding information on applications is not available.

The Home Office publishes data on settlement grants in the Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The available data relates to grants of indefinite leave to remain as a bereaved partner up to 2020 and are published in table Se_04 of the Settlement data tables.