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1727133

registered interest
date	03/09/2024
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 she plans to raise the minimum income requirement for family immigration visas to £34,000; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of such an increase on (a) Leicester and (b) other low average income areas.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Shockat Adam
uin	4091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2024 answer text <p>The financial requirements for the Family Immigration Rules include the Minimum Income Requirement (MIR) which is currently set at £29,000 and is intended to maintain the economic wellbeing of the UK whilst respecting family life.</p><p>The Home Secretary has announced her intention to commission the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to review the financial requirements in the Family Immigration Rules.</p><p>Conducting a review of the financial requirements across the family routes will ensure we have a clear and consistent system. There will be no changes to the current threshold of £29,000, or the ways in which the MIR can be met, until the MAC review is complete.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 11/09/2024 10:34:13 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	5120

1722282

registered interest
date	19/07/2024
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, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating an emergency family reunion visa scheme for people affected by the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
tabling member constituency	Salford
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>Currently, those affected by the conflict in Israel and Palestine who wish to join family members in the UK can do so via the existing range of routes available.</p><p>Any application for a UK visa will be assessed against the requirements of the Immigration Rules. Immediate family members of British citizens and those settled in the UK who wish to come and live in the UK can apply under one of the existing family visa routes.</p><p> </p><p>There are also routes available for dependants of those who are in the UK on a work or student route.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals with protection status or settlement on a protection route may sponsor their partner or child (under 18), to join or stay with them in the UK, providing they formed part of the pre-flight family unit before the sponsor fled their country to seek protection.</p><p> </p><p>When the visa application has been received consideration will be given to compelling, compassionate and exceptional circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 29/07/2024 16:05:37 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1722291

registered interest
date	19/07/2024
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, what her policy is on changes to the level of the baseline minimum salary for family visas for spouses and partners.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sorcha Eastwood
uin	846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>The new Home Secretary will decide on the future of current Home Office policies in due course. Any changes will be announced to Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 29/07/2024 16:06:19 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	5125

1722292

registered interest
date	19/07/2024
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, what her policy is on whether social care workers should be able to bring their dependents to the UK on their visa.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sorcha Eastwood
uin	847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>The new Home Secretary will decide on the future of current Home Office policies in due course. Any changes will be announced to Parliament in the normal way.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra grouped question UIN 845 question first answered 29/07/2024 16:11:27 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	5125

1715018

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
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, pursuant to his answer of 30 April 2024 to Question 23225 on Visas: Families, how many staff have been (a) recruited and (b) re-deployed to his Department's Family and Human Rights Unit.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	24252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>Whilst this information is recorded on our systems, it is not in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 09/05/2024 16:51:24 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1713202

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
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 plans to (a) review and (b) increase the number of staff recruited to his Department's Family and Human Rights Unit in the context of trends in the proportion of people relying on their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights in applications for family visas.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	23225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Yes, we have both recruited new staff and redeployed existing staff to this area of work.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 30/04/2024 15:32:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1695400

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
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 of 4 December 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report, column 41, whether his Department invited representations from stakeholders prior to announcing an increase to the Minimum Income Requirement for family visas.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	18097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government engages regularly with interested stakeholders including through a number of its advisory groups, when developing its policies. We did not invite representations from stakeholders specifically on the MIR prior to the announcement of 4 December 2023.</p><p>The decision to raise the MIR was taken to ensure that migration policy is supportive of the wider ambition for the UK to be a high-wage, high-productivity, high-skill economy, and help to ensure that migrants make a net positive contribution to the public finances in addition to ensuring that families would not need to have recourse to welfare and had sufficient resources to participate in British life.</p><p>Previous advice and evidence provided by the Migration Advisory Committee regarding net-fiscal contributions and access to benefits was considered when making this decision. We did not seek further advice from the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) before making the decision to increase the Minimum Income Requirement (MIR) element of the family Immigration Rules.</p><p>A child who is applying for permission after 11 April 2024 to join their parent who, prior to 11 April met the lower threshold and was granted permission, will be subject to transitional arrangements and must meet the same threshold as their parent (£18,600 plus the child component, capped at £29,000). Where they meet the threshold alongside the other requirements of the 5-year route, they will be granted on the 5-year route to settlement.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 18096 18098 question first answered 20/03/2024 11:21:59 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1695401

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
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 of 4 December 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report, column 41, whether the joining family member of a person who (a) would have met the former threshold for family visas in force until 10 of April 2024 and (b) does not qualify under the new threshold will be placed on the 10-year route to settlement.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	18098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government engages regularly with interested stakeholders including through a number of its advisory groups, when developing its policies. We did not invite representations from stakeholders specifically on the MIR prior to the announcement of 4 December 2023.</p><p>The decision to raise the MIR was taken to ensure that migration policy is supportive of the wider ambition for the UK to be a high-wage, high-productivity, high-skill economy, and help to ensure that migrants make a net positive contribution to the public finances in addition to ensuring that families would not need to have recourse to welfare and had sufficient resources to participate in British life.</p><p>Previous advice and evidence provided by the Migration Advisory Committee regarding net-fiscal contributions and access to benefits was considered when making this decision. We did not seek further advice from the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) before making the decision to increase the Minimum Income Requirement (MIR) element of the family Immigration Rules.</p><p>A child who is applying for permission after 11 April 2024 to join their parent who, prior to 11 April met the lower threshold and was granted permission, will be subject to transitional arrangements and must meet the same threshold as their parent (£18,600 plus the child component, capped at £29,000). Where they meet the threshold alongside the other requirements of the 5-year route, they will be granted on the 5-year route to settlement.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 18096 18097 question first answered 20/03/2024 11:21:59 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1691531

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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, what his timetable is for announcing further dates on which the minimum income threshold for family visas will increase.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	901626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Net Migration is simply too high. This is why we have set out a package of measures to reduce net migration including bring the Minimum Income Requirement for family visas is in line with the new minimum general salary threshold for Skilled Workers, which is £38,700.</p><p>We will raise the minimum income for family visas incrementally, in stages. We intend to lay the family Immigration Rules we intend to lay on 14 March which will set out that from 11 April, we will raise the threshold to £29,000, that is the 25th percentile of earnings for jobs which are eligible for Skilled Worker visas.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/02/2024 15:44:13 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1689247

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Reunite Families UK's report entitled UK family migration rules: spouse / partner migration rules: an initial findings report examining the mental health impact of the rules on children and families, published on 18 December 2023.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	14173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>From 11 April 2024, we will raise the minimum income threshold for family visas to £29,000, that is the 25<sup>th</sup> percentile of earnings for jobs which are eligible for Skilled Worker visas. We will incrementally increase the threshold, moving to the 40<sup>th</sup> percentile (currently £34,500), and finally to the 50<sup>th</sup> percentile (currently £38,700, and the level at which the General Skilled Worker threshold is set) by early 2025. The dates of these changes will be set out in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We have reviewed the Reunite Families Report published on 18 December 2023. We will add the findings to our evidence base when formulating future reviews into family immigration policies, including the Minimum Income Requirement.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 14161 question first answered 26/02/2024 17:17:25 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock