Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Douglas Ross Excerpts
Monday 8th February 2021

(3 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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The Secretary of State was asked—
Douglas Ross Portrait Douglas Ross (Moray) (Con)
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What proportion of applications for indefinite leave to remain have been successful in the last 12 months.

Priti Patel Portrait The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Priti Patel)
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The UK offers a wide range of routes for people to settle in the UK, including those in need of protection and those who settle through marriage or work routes. There were 80,710 decisions on applications for settlement in the UK from non-European economic area nationals in the year ending September 2020, of which 97% resulted in a grant.

Douglas Ross Portrait Douglas Ross [V]
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Since I was elected in 2017, I have been supporting Matt Jun Fei Freeman in his efforts to secure indefinite leave to remain. Matt has been in the UK for 17 years, and for the last nine he has made Lossiemouth and the wider Moray community his home. Will the Home Secretary agree to meet me to look at the considerable case for Matt to remain in Moray, so that he can continue to benefit from the friendship and support he gets here and so that Moray can continue to gain from Matt choosing this part of the world to be his home?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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My hon. Friend raises a very important case. He spelt out the duration for which Matthew has lived in the UK and in his constituency. I would be delighted to meet him to discuss the detailed nature of the case, and I am happy to follow up on the concerns he has.