To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library a copy of the internal departmental review on polygamy and income support. (191004)

The internal review took the form of a number of submissions to Ministers. Advice to Ministers on the development and formulation of Government policy is not made public.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make it his policy to collect statistics on the number of (a) three person and (b) four person polygamous unions where the members are in receipt of income support. (191005)

No; the cost of collecting and analyzing such statistics would far outweigh their usefulness. Collecting information would require significant changes to the information technology system, and the way our staff record information.

Additionally, as current immigration rules make it very unlikely that new polygamous households could be formed in the UK, and have done so since 1988, we know that the number of such households must be decreasing over time.