Question follow-through · 103338
Meat Hygiene Service: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of visa renewal costs and salary thresholds for migrant Meat Hygiene Inspectors under the proposed earned settlement model on food price i
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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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
6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of visa renewal costs and salary thresholds for migrant Meat Hygiene Inspectors under the proposed earned settlement model on food price i
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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13 Jan 2026
Answer published
The earned settlement model, proposed in A Fairer Pathway to Settlement, will raise the standard qualifying period for settlement from five years to ten years.We are proposing a series of tests that will measure a person’s contribution to this country and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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