Member

I thank the Minister for her engagement and for having arranged a meeting—albeit the way the Bill has gone through means that it has been difficult to engage too frequently. The Minister claimed that the data on Oriel is not verified, but if the department had moved fast enough from last July it could have commissioned the software necessary to do that verification. By clinging to the blunt instrument of ILR, the Government are choosing to change the rules mid-cycle, pulling the rug from under doctors who have served on our front lines for two, three or four years. This includes doctors on spousal visas who are permanent residents married to British citizens, yet who are now deprioritised. It includes mothers who have spent months living apart from their infants to study for the MSRA exams, only to find the goalposts moved days after sitting in the paper.