Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of raising the minimum income requirement for family visas.

• The Family Immigration Rules, including the MIR, need to balance a respect for family life whilst also ensuring the economic wellbeing of the UK is maintained.

• Under the previous government net migration reached a record high. We have paused the current MIR threshold and commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to review the financial requirements in the Family Immigration Rules. This will ensure we have a solid evidence base for any further changes. The previous government did not commission the MAC when increasing the MIR to £29,000 in April last year despite the Supreme Court referring to the MAC Review undertaken to support the introduction of the MIR when determining the MIR was lawful.