Denying many families free childcare due to their immigration status is also at odds with the Government's bid to boost the workforce and economic activity, the letter added.
New research by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford found the number of people in the UK who have no recourse to public funds had risen by more than one million since 2020 to 2.6 million at the end of 2022.
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