Wendy Morton
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Immigration: Earned Settlement
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Shabana Mahmood
Again, I appreciate the fact that not everybody will have had a chance yet to look at the whole consultation response, so I say to my hon. Friend that the position on children is largely unchanged. The rules about whether applicants have been here for seven years or the majority of their life in order to be able to settle still apply, and children will normally settle when both of their parents get ILR, which is the same position as today.
Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills) (Con)
What a missed opportunity to strengthen the rules, strengthen the illegal immigration policy and strengthen our borders. How can the Home Secretary reasonably think this is fair to the British people?
Shabana Mahmood
I think that was actually a missed opportunity to apologise, which nobody on the Opposition Benches has done.