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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the evidential basis is
for increasing the minimum income requirement (MIR) to £38,700 for certain family
and work visas; if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing
the MIR on those affected in (a) Derry City and Strabane and (b) other regions where
average gross annual earnings are below the national average; and if he will ensure
that the Government's planned impact assessment of increasing the MIR includes an
equality impact assessment.
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