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2026-07-08 · Home Office · HL1893 · Official question

Baroness Coffey

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Hanson of Flint to the first Oral Question on 9 July, what assessment they have made of the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposed policy change to extend the right to acquire indefinite leav

Answer

The consultation for the earned settlement model, as proposed in ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’, was open to the public between 20 November 2025 and 12 February 2026.We received over 200,000 responses and are now carefully considering the feedback recei...