Question follow-through · 121132

Immigration Controls: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether receiving statutory maternity leave will be considered receipt of public funds and impact a mother’s length of settlement route under the earned settlement model.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 16 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 18 Mar 2026
Answer: 24 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026

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Recorded timeline

16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether receiving statutory maternity leave will be considered receipt of public funds and impact a mother’s length of settlement route under the earned settlement model.
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
Proposals for introducing an earned settlement model, as set out in the Command Paper “A Fairer Pathway to Settlement” (CP1448), were subject to a public consultation, which opened on 20 November 2025 and closed on 12 February 2026.Contributory benefits a...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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