Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason there was an increase in the number of settlement grants for workers from 2022-2023.

The increase in individuals reaching the five-year qualifying threshold in 2023 will tend to reflect the increase in work visas issued five years previously, in 2018 under the previous administration. My Hon friend, the Home Secretary, addressed reasons for the latter increase in her statement to the House of Commons on 2 December 2024.