Question follow-through · 101039
Immigration
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
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.
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2026
Answer published
The earned settlement model, proposed in A Fairer Pathway to Settlement, is currently subject to a public consultation, running until 12 February 2026. Details of the earned settlement scheme will be finalised following that consultation. The final model ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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