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Question follow-through · 54565

Immigration: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to maintain the settlement criteria for British National (Overseas) visa holders.

answeredHome Office

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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, whether her Department plans to maintain the settlement criteria for British National (Overseas) visa holders.

  2. 4 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to supporting members of the Hong Kong community who have relocated to the UK and those who may come here in future.Further details of all measures announced in the Immigration White Paper will be set out in the normal way in d...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Oppression: Hong Kong

11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police reports on the intimidation of pro-democracy Hong Kongers living in the UK have been filed in each year since 2021.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Oppression: Hong Kong

11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on the number of alleged bounties placed on pro-democracy Hong Kongers living in the UK by Beijing-linked groups.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Oppression: Hong Kong

11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether pro-democracy Hong Kong activists are able to receive support from (a) police forces and (b) other agencies for allegations of intimidation by Beijing-linked groups.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas: British National (Overseas)

11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications there have been through the British Nationals (Overseas) Visa pathway in each year since 2021.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas: British National (Overseas)

11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications through the British Nationals (Overseas) Visa pathway have been rejected in each year since 2021.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas: British National (Overseas)

13 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many attempted applications have been made for the British National (Overseas) visa pathway by people born before 1997 and who have at least one parent with BNO status since 2021.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Written Questions

23 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to answer Question 59951 on British National (Overseas): Visas, tabled on 12 June 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration Removal Centres

26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to consult Parliament on changes to Immigration removal centres, announced on 11 June 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Migrants: Detainees

10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Alternative to Detention schemes piloted under the Home Office’s Community Engagement Pilot series.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre

12 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the proposed expansion of the Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre (Phase 2), whether a formal decision has been taken to rely on the Crown Development route under sections 293D to

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre: Detainees

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were detained at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre on 5 December 2025 by reason for detention.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre: Independent Monitoring Boards

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of the Independent Monitoring Board for Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre have been appointed; and what the names of those members are.