Immigrants: Commonwealth
(asked on 8th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 May 2018 to Question 136029, on Immigrants: Commonwealth, whether his Department made an assessment of the potential effect of the Immigration Act 2014 on (a) older Commonwealth citizens, (b) undocumented British citizens and (c) other vulnerable groups prior to its implementation.
The Government balances the need to tackle illegal immigration with protecting vulnerable individuals and those who are here lawfully from any unintended consequences. We conduct impact assessments to consider policy objectives, reasons for government intervention and the likely impact of that intervention. An impact assessment was published for the Immigration Act 2014, which can be found at:
The right to rent scheme created by the 2014 Act was also the subject of a full public consultation and related documents can be found at:
We have introduced additional safeguards through the Home Office checking services for landlords and employers to ensure members of the Windrush generation are not impacted by measures designed to tackle illegal immigration.