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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 on 12 May 2025, whether the proposed increase in the standard qualifying period for permanent reside

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
22 May 2025
Target answer date
4 Jun 2025
Answer
4 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 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 on 12 May 2025, whether the proposed increase in the standard qualifying period for permanent reside

  2. 4 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Jun 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 that time.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Asylum

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Asylum

3 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s research entitled Understanding asylum seeker and refugee vulnerabilities and needs (2022), published on 22 May 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential i

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Visas: Trinidad and Tobago

16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of new visa requirements on travellers from Trinidad and Tobago; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an exemp

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Metropolitan Police: Motor Vehicles

18 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the Metropolitan Police on the (a) purchase and (b) deployment of Plesan Sandcat armoured vehicles.

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Immigration: Ukraine

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to enable Ukrainians who arrived via the (a) Homes for Ukraine and (b) Ukraine Family Scheme to settle permanently in the UK.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Public Consultation

2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she consulted people with direct experience of the immigration system prior to designing the (a) settlement and (b) citizenship changes proposed in the Immigration White Paper.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Refugees: Secure Accommodation

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction in the transition period to 28 days on the ability of refugees to secure accommodation.

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Visas: Prison Officers

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to skilled worker visa requirements for prison officers on the level of prison staffing.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crimes of Violence and Hate Crime

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with the police on taking steps to help ensure that people who incited (a) hatred and (b) violence during the Unite The Kingdom march in London on 13 September 2

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Immigration

17 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of introducing a 15-year route to settlement on migrants on low wages.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Nurses

9 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to allow migrant nurses who are not employed by the NHS to qualify for indefinite leave to remain after 5 years.