Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the application of the new individual earnings requirement applies to spouses of UK citizens who are retired, carers, or stay-at-home parents.

On 20 November, we launched a public consultation on our proposed earned settlement model.

The command paper accompanying that consultation puts forward a general requirement to have earnt at least £12,570 per annum for three years in order to settle in the UK.

The consultation directly asks for views on whether certain individuals or cohorts should be exempted from that general requirement.

Full details of the earned settlement model will be finalised following the public consultation.