Question follow-through · 87270
Refugees: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the review of refugee family reunion will consider the optimisation of decision making to reduce the need for appeals.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Oppression: Iran · 9 Mar 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.
Recorded timeline
3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the review of refugee family reunion will consider the optimisation of decision making to reduce the need for appeals.
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2025
Answer published
The family reunion route is temporarily suspended for a short period until Spring 2026. The Home Office is reviewing the route, with the intention to set out and implement those changes from then.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Citizenship: Children
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost price is of a child citizenship application.
Oppression: Iran
9 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to protect Iranian dissidents, journalists and human-rights defenders resident in the UK from surveillance, harassment and threats linked to the Iranian state.
Oppression: Iran
9 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce an expedited visa and scholarship scheme for at-risk Iranian activists, journalists and human-rights defenders seeking sanctuary and study in the UK.
Waste: Crime
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of designating waste crime as a national strategic policing priority.
Waste: Organised Crime
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role the National Crime Agency currently plays in tackling organised waste crime.