Keir Starmer – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keir Starmer on 2016-05-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) single adult males and (b) single adult females were in reciept of support under the provisions of section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in December 2015.

James Brokenshire

The Home office publishes statistics on those supported under section 4 at the end of each quarter in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.

Of the 3,821 main applicants and dependants that were supported under section 4 as at the end of December 2015, 1,948 were single adults. Where the gender of the main applicant is recorded, 1,544 of these were males and 335 were females.

The data relating to single adults is a subset of figures published in Table as_18_q, in volume 4 of the latest Immigration Statistics release, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015