Oral Answers to Questions

Gregory Stafford Excerpts

Monday 23rd March 2026 Commons Chamber

[Shabana Mahmood]

My hon. and learned Friend knows that we have announced three specific types of safe and legal route for students and workers, as well as a community sponsorship scheme. The student scheme will go live later this year, with the first applicants arriving in the autumn of next year. We are designing the community sponsorship route with community organisations and international partners. I am sure that he will want to make representations on what his community wants to contribute to the new routes, but the design is under way, and the routes will be rolled out in due course.

[Gregory Stafford (Farnham and Bordon) (Con)]

T7. Given the ongoing national security concerns, including the risk of foreign interference in elections, will the Home Secretary set out what her Department is doing to ensure that individuals convicted of terrorism offences are prevented from standing for elected office in the UK?

[Dan Jarvis]

As the hon. Gentleman knows, these are matters that we take very seriously and are addressing through the work of the defending democracy taskforce.