Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy on trends in the level of child poverty.

Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity.

The government is working to develop a strategy to drive forward short and long-term actions to reduce child poverty.

The strategy will consider levers to alleviate poverty experienced by all children in the UK, regardless of immigration status, including children either subject to or impacted by the No Recourse to Public Funds policy.