Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2019 to Question 222021, how many changes of circumstance applications to gain recourse to public funds were granted by his Department in 2015-16.

These statistics are not included in Governments published migration statistics. The Government has no current plans to collect and collate the statistics in the manner requested as it would incur disproportionate cost to the public purse.