Written Question·Home Office·UIN 121715

Immigration: Migrant Workers

Tabled: 18 March 2026
Answered: 23 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Ms Stella Creasy

Labour (Co-op)Walthamstow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to her statement of 5 March 2026 that extending the waiting period for Indefinite Leave to Remain for 350,000 low skilled workers from five to between fifteen and twenty years is necessary to

Answer

Mike Tapp
The analysis undertaken by the Home Office to estimate the £10bn figure is set out at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimated-lifetime-net-fiscal-costs-for-care-workers-and-their-adult-dependants/estimated-lifetime-net-fis...

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