Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Andrew Bridgen Excerpts
Monday 6th March 2017

(7 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Goodwill Portrait Mr Goodwill
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It is important that family life must not be established here at the taxpayer’s expense and that families are able to integrate. That is what our family immigration rules achieve, an approach that the Supreme Court has now endorsed.

Andrew Bridgen Portrait Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire) (Con)
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Does the Minister intend to use the same minimum income threshold for EU spouses as he currently uses for non-EU spouses?

Robert Goodwill Portrait Mr Goodwill
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We have not even sat around the negotiation table, so that question is probably slightly premature.