Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Hanson of Flint to the first Oral Question on 9 July, what assessment they have made of the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposed policy change to extend the right to acquire indefinite leave to remain and citizenship to 10 years on the number of people who will gain British citizenship in the next decade.

The consultation for the earned settlement model, as proposed in ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’, was open to the public between 20 November 2025 and 12 February 2026.

We received over 200,000 responses and are now carefully considering the feedback received, as we develop the final model. As no final decisions have been made, I can give no further detail at this time.

The final model will also be subject to economic and equality impact assessments, which we have committed to publish in due course.