Question follow-through · 122248
Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether receiving Personal Independence Payment for a temporary period will impact access to the proposed extended settlement period.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 5 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
19 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether receiving Personal Independence Payment for a temporary period will impact access to the proposed extended settlement period.
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
Personal Independence Payments constitute public funds for the purposes of the Immigration Rules. It has not yet been determined what will constitute public funds or the purposes of adjustments to the qualifying period for settlement under the earned sett...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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