Question follow-through · 122249
Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an assessment of how the ‘earned settlement model’ will affect its commitments to ending child poverty and rough sleeping.
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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 her Department has undertaken an assessment of how the ‘earned settlement model’ will affect its commitments to ending child poverty and rough sleeping.
24 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. As part of this consul...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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