Question follow-through · 121774
Immigration Controls: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her department has made of the cost to local authorities of emergency social services provisions to those affected by changes to earned settlement.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- British National (Overseas): British Nationality · 14 May 2026
- British Nationality: Hong Kong · 14 May 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
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her department has made of the cost to local authorities of emergency social services provisions to those affected by changes to earned settlement.
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 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.As part of this consult...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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