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1675897

registered interest
date	06/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral contribution of 4 December 2023, Official Report, column 41, on what evidential basis his Department decided to set a minimum salary threshold for skilled worker visas at £38,700; whether his Department held discussions with (a) the Migration Advisory Committee and (b) relevant stakeholders before changing the minimum salary threshold for skilled worker visas; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of setting a lower threshold.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	5543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government engages regularly with the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) and business sectors through a number of advisory groups when developing its policies. The Government will be engaging with the MAC and business on aspects of the package in due course. Careful analysis has been undertaken to support decision making in this process and a Regulatory Impact Assessment will be developed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/12/2023 17:04:31 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1675417

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Statement of 4 November 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report column 42, what the evidential basis was for setting the income threshold for spouse and family visas at £38,700; and whether he sought (a) advice from the Migration Advisory Committee and (b) other independent advice before setting that threshold.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	5292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The government will publish an impact assessment on these changes in due course. The Migration Advisory Committee was not asked to provide further advice related to this change as previous advice and evidence provided by the Migration Advisory Committee was already available and considered.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 5321 5360 question first answered 11/12/2023 11:49:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1675418

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Emigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of British citizens leaving the UK each year to join spouses and partners.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	5293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 5 December is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/12/2023 17:43:39 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen attachment 1 file name PQ5293.pdf title UK Statistics Authority
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1675540

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an impact assessment of the rise in income thresholds for spouse and other family visas to £38,700.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	5294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The government will publish an impact assessment on these changes in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/12/2023 11:52:20 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1675581

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Oral Statement to the House on 4 December 2023, Official Report, column 41, on what evidential basis his Department decided to set a minimum income threshold for family visas at £38,700; whether his Department held discussions with (a) Migration Advisory Committee and (b) stakeholders before changing the minimum income threshold for family visas; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of setting a lower threshold.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	5321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The government will publish an impact assessment on these changes in due course. The Migration Advisory Committee was not asked to provide further advice related to this change as previous advice and evidence provided by the Migration Advisory Committee was already available and considered.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 5292 5360 question first answered 11/12/2023 11:49:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1675627

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date he plans to bring into force the increase in financial threshold for family visas to £38,700; and whether people who apply before the new threshold comes into force will have the existing threshold applied to them if their application has not been decided before the date of the threshold increase.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	5360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The government will publish an impact assessment on these changes in due course. The Migration Advisory Committee was not asked to provide further advice related to this change as previous advice and evidence provided by the Migration Advisory Committee was already available and considered.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 5292 5321 question first answered 11/12/2023 11:49:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1675295

registered interest
date	04/12/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Baby Care Units: Parental Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent estimate she has made of (a) when neonatal care and leave will be provided under the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 and (b) the number of families that will be able to access that care and leave in its first year.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	5143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>We are committed to introducing Neonatal Care Leave and Pay as quickly as possible and work is ongoing across Government to deliver these new entitlements by April 2025 at the earliest, subject to parliamentary scheduling of the necessary SIs.</p><p> </p><p>In the region of 40,000 babies spend over one week in neonatal care each year and it is estimated that approximately 60,000 parents will be eligible for Neonatal Care Leave and Pay with around 34,000 parents taking up this entitlement every year.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 11/12/2023 17:39:30 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald