Written Question·Home Office·UIN 121774

Immigration Controls: Social Services

Tabled: 18 March 2026
Answered: 25 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Neil Coyle

LabourBermondsey and Old Southwark

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.

Answer

Mike Tapp
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...

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