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Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published 12 May 2025, whether her Department's proposed changes to the qualifying period for settled status w

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
20 May 2025
Target answer date
22 May 2025
Answer
28 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published 12 May 2025, whether her Department's proposed changes to the qualifying period for settled status w

  2. 22 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 May 2025

    Answer published

    We will be consulting on the earned settlement scheme later this year and further details on the proposed scheme will be provided at the time.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Immigration

8 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for (a) Health and Social Care and (b) Work and Pensions on the (i) proposed increase in standard qualifying period for permanent residence and

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18 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Statement on Asylum Policy of 17 of November, Official Report column 509, what the length of time for settlement for refugees who successfully apply through that route will be.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Refugees: Families

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