Question follow-through · 51988
Immigration: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Restoring Control Over the Immigration System: White paper, published on 12 May 2025, whether the changes to the qualifying period for settlemen
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Restoring Control Over the Immigration System: White paper, published on 12 May 2025, whether the changes to the qualifying period for settlemen
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
We will be consulting on the earned settlement scheme later this year and will provide further details at that stage.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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