Found: Lord's Declarations of Interest: Immigration and Asylum Bill Declarations of interest

Found: Turley, Minister of State for Border Security, Home Office regarding amendments to the Immigration and Asylum Bill

Found: The Immigration and Asylum Bill now provides a timely legislative opportunity.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the Article 8 cases sampled for the impact assessment for the Immigration and Asylum Bill involved family life with a person outside the core cohabiting family as defined in clause 18; and if she will publish the sample methodology.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

There was no data collected on ‘core cohabiting families’ as part of the Article 8 case sample, which was used in the Impact Assessment for the Immigration and Asylum Bill.

Details of the sample methodology are published in the impact assessment in Annex 3.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the number of sponsor human rights claims (a) overall and (b) that will result in appeals under clause 17 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill in each of the first three years after commencement.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

It is not possible to estimate the number of sponsor human rights claims made in the first three years after commencement as applicants currently apply for entry clearance in their own right and can raise Article 8 grounds as part of that application, or at appeal.

These reforms do not create new rights and entitlements or make it easier for overseas family members to enter the UK. Sponsors will still need to meet a high threshold by showing that refusal of entry would result in a breach of their Article 8 rights.

Every Article 8 case is different and must be decided on its own facts. These reforms are designed to support more consistent decisions, but it is not possible to predict the outcome of individual cases and therefore how many sponsor human rights claims will result in an appeal.

Instead, we will monitor the impact of the reforms by looking at indicators like grant rates, refusal rates, appeal outcomes and the reasons that appeals succeed, to ensure the policy is working as intended.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likelihood that Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights will be used by individuals entering the UK on the resettlement scheme to bring additional family members.

Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

As announced by the Home Secretary on 28 September, the Home Office has started receiving new referrals for the United Kingdom Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) in 26/27.

The Government expects the total arrivals across the UKRS and the three new community sponsorship routes to number in the low hundreds at first.

Individuals identified for resettlement under the UKRS are usually resettled as part of immediate family units.

Through the Immigration and Asylum Bill, the Home Office will limit the application of Article 8 claims in three ways: strengthening and rebalancing the public interest test to ensure issues that are central to the public interest are considered; defining family life for the purposes of Article 8, by setting out a clear framing for decision makers and the courts that it should not normally go beyond immediate family members; and requiring Article 8 family life claims from those outside of the UK to be made by a UK-based sponsor.

Found: the Renters’ Rights Act on the Property Chamber as well as the expected impact of the Immigration and Asylum Bill

Found: Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: impact assessment

Found: Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: impact assessment

Found: as the government is strengthening protections for victims of modern slavery through the Immigration and Asylum Bill

Found: The government has tabled amendments to the Immigration and Asylum Bill to close Article 8 loopholes

Found: The government has tabled amendments to the Immigration and Asylum Bill to close Article 8 loopholes

Found: Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: factsheets

Found: the Renters’ Rights Act on the Property Chamber as well as the expected impact of the Immigration and Asylum Bill

Found: RPC opinion: impact of Immigration and Asylum Bill