Backbench Business: No Recourse to Public Funds

On Thursday 8 October a Backbench Business Debate on No Recourse to Public Funds will take place in Westminster Hall.

Further reading:

House of Commons Libray Briefings:

• Coronavirus: Calls to ease No Recourse to Public Funds conditions, 27 April 2020

• Coronavirus: Universal Credit during the crisis pp21-22, 4 September 2020

Committee reports and Parliamentary questions and debates :

• Questions and debates

• Home Affairs Committee, Third Report: Home Office preparedness for Covid-19 (coronavirus): immigration and visas, Third Report of Session 2019–21, HC 362, published 15 June 2020

• Home Affairs Committee, Letter from the Minister for Immigration Compliance and the Courts to the Chair and the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee on NRPF, dated 1 September 2020, published 3 September 2020

• Government Response to the Work and Pensions Committee’s report on DWP’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, published 8 September 2020 – paras 8-11 cover the Committee’s recommendations regarding people with no recourse to public funds and the Government’s response to them.

Other useful material

• Emergency funding to prevent homelessness, Scottish Government press release, 3 August 2020 – mentions calls from Scottish Government Ministers on the UK Government to reconsider its position on people with no recourse to public funds.

• Citizens Advice reveals nearly 1.4m have no access to welfare safety net, Citizens Advice press release, 26 June 2020

• Part of no recourse to public funds policy declared unlawful: full judgment out, Free Movement, 27 May 2020