Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of data from the Migration Advisory Committee report entitled The Fiscal of Immigration, December 2025, which found the actual savings from extending the settlement qualifying period may be approximately £600 million.

The MAC’s December 2025 report concluded that the net fiscal contribution of migrant workers declines after settlement. Their report did not provide the estimated savings from implementing an earned settlement model.

The consultation for the earned settlement model, as proposed in ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’, was open to the public between 20 November 2025 and 12 February 2026.

We are now reviewing and analysing all responses received.  This analysis will help inform the development of the final earned settlement model, including consideration of any transitional measures for those already on a pathway to settlement.

Once the final model has been decided, the Government will communicate the outcome publicly.  As with all significant policy changes, the proposals will be subject to both economic and equality impact assessments.