Kirsty Blackman MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Overseas Students: GazaHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing emergency visas to students in Gaza who have confirmed UK university places; and whether her Department has had recent discussions wit
Answer: The Government provided exceptional support to enable the departure of Chevening Scholars and fully funded scholarship students from Gaza, for students whose courses began before 31 December 2025. This support was for students who met the relevant require...
Answered 12 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93724More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 20 November 2025 on A Fairer Pathway to Settlement (Official Report, Vol.775, c.889-891), whether equalities impact assessments have been made for (a) the decis
Answer: The new earned settlement model outlined in A Fairer Pathway to Settlement has been subject to an equality impact assessment. Equality impact assessments are kept under regular review.
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 18 November 2025 on Asylum Policy (Official Report, Vol.775, c.509-513), whether equalities impact assessments have been made for the new measures announced.
Answer: Specific Equality Impact Assessments will be produced for individual policies in due course. These will be kept under review to ensure that there are no unintended impacts on people with protected characteristics.
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: FamiliesHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78175More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department carried out an equality impact assessment prior to suspending refugee family reunion.
Answer: Impacts on vulnerable individuals and equalities considerations are at the front and centre of our work. As required through the Public Sector Equality Duty, we consider equality impacts throughout the policy development process, refugee family reunion is...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: FamiliesHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78174More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department carried out an economic impact assessment prior to suspending refugee family reunion.
Answer: Impacts on vulnerable individuals and equalities considerations are at the front and centre of our work. As required through the Public Sector Equality Duty, we consider equality impacts throughout the policy development process, refugee family reunion is...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: FamiliesHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78173More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department plans to publish statistics on the time taken by newly recognised refugees to submit family reunion applications.
Answer: Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: WomenHome OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of reducing the refugee move-on period to 28 days on levels of risk to women of (a) homelessness and (b) exposure to violence and abuse.
Answer: From 1 September 2025, the Home Office has taken the decision to pause the 56 day move on period pilot for single adults in receipt of a positive asylum decision, with the exception of individuals who are pregnant, over the age of 65 or have a known/evide...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: FamiliesHome OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76588More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of suspending refugee family reunion applications on (a) women, (b) children and (c) other vulnerable groups.
Answer: The suspension of the refugee family reunion route is temporary while the Government undertakes a full review and reform of the current family rules to ensure we have a fair and properly balanced system. In the meantime, those with protection status can u...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrants: DetaineesHome OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76587More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of (a) the Government’s commitment to halving levels of violence against women and girls within a decade and (b) the detention of women in immigration
Answer: Asylum-seeking victims must be treated as victims, first and foremost. We recognise the challenges asylum-seeking victims of VAWG can face and the VAWG Strategy will include more detail on our approach to migrant victims of VAWG. It is vital that we get t...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Gender Based ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the criminalisation of asylum-seeking survivors of violence against women and girls.
Answer: Asylum-seeking victims of VAWG must be treated as victims, first and foremost. We recognise the challenges asylum-seeking victims of VAWG can face and the VAWG Strategy will include more detail on our approach to criminalisation of victims of VAWG. It is ...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrants: DetaineesHome OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to provide community-based alternatives to immigration detention for women.
Answer: The Department will keep under review the feasibility of alternatives to detention, taking account of effectiveness and cost efficiency, as part of our plans to transform the asylum and returns system.
Answered 16 Sept 2025
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