Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Nationality and Borders Act to mitigate the risk of indirect discrimination for claims based on protected characteristics, in accordance with paragraph 21 of that Act’s Equality Impact Assessment.

An Equality Impact Assessment was published on 16 September, as part of the then Nationality and Borders Bill (now Act).

All our policies under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 will be subject to ongoing monitoring and evaluation, with the operation of our policies being kept under close review. The Home Office routinely publishes migration statistics, which forms the basis of our analysis.

We are also committed to engaging with our external stakeholders to explore any trends or issues that they are identifying and any other outputs.