Asylum Seekers: Government Support

Part of Home Department – in the House of Commons at on 29 July 2024.

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Photo of Carla Denyer Carla Denyer Green, Bristol Central

No recourse to public funds is a policy that prevents most migrants in the UK from accessing most forms of welfare support. I would like to see the policy scrapped altogether to reduce child poverty and homelessness, but, at the very least, will the Minister stop applying it to the visas of any parents of children under 18 to ensure that children can be adequately protected against poverty and destitution?