§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why an unemployed American national, recently arrived from the United States, and living with his family in Helston, Cornwall, off social security benefits in cash and in kind amounting to approximately £150 tax free per week, was given permission to stay in the United Kingdom for an unspecified time.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesThe United States citizen concerned has a British-born wife whom he married in 1965. They returned to this country in February 1978 and he has since been granted settlement as a foreign husband in accordance with the immigration rules. The payment of social security benefits is a matter for my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Social Services.