Select committee: Work and Pensions Committee
Conclusion 14
Seventh Report - Children in poverty: No recourse to public funds
Published 14 Apr 2022
Paragraph 52
Addressed to Department for Work and Pensions
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
We are pleased that the Home Office has changed its policy to prevent those on the 5 year route from being automatically transferred to the 10 year route in the event of a successful change of condition application. However, this is only for families who are no longer accessing public funds when they apply for indefinite leave to remain, so this change is unlikely to benefit all families who’ve been living in poverty with NRPF.
From: Work and Pensions Committee, Seventh Report - Children in poverty: No recourse to public funds (HC 603), paragraph 52, 14 April 2022
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 13 June 2022 (deadline 14 June 2022).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government responds to each recommendation, taking forward some reviews, data work and funding while stating "there are no plans to shorten the maximum period of time spent subject to NRPF for families with children" and declining several others.
- On domestic abuse, it will provide £1.4 million in 2022–23 to continue funding support for migrant victims, with the independent evaluation of the pilot due to report in Summer 2022.
- The Department for Work and Pensions "will review its guidance and communications" for people with an NRPF condition and will write to the Committee within three months on the outcome.
- The Home Office does not plan to carry out a cost-benefit analysis on NRPF, saying it "would not be feasible to do so meaningfully", and does not plan to publish the NRPF Forum minutes.
- On data, the Home Office is "committed to further explore data availability" on NRPF and migrant poverty, while recognising the challenges of identifying and gathering the relevant data.