Question follow-through · 97147
Immigration: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish an Equalities Impact Assessment for her proposed earned settlement model.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 32 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Immigration: Fees and Charges · 24 Mar 2026
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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
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish an Equalities Impact Assessment for her proposed earned settlement model.
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
Details of the earned settlement model will be finalised following the conclusion of the ongoing public consultation.An equality impact assessment will then be published in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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