Immigration controls

(asked on 27th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to revise the Immigration Rules by spring 2021; and what opportunities there will be for parliamentary scrutiny of any changes.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 11th August 2020

The Government published its response to the Law Commission’s report ‘Simplification of the Immigration Rules’ in March 2020 and set out its proposed plans for simplifying and consolidating the Immigration Rules in line with the Law Commission’s recommendations and contained examples of draft Rules.

We are working with the Simplification of the Rules Review Committee, which represents a number of different stakeholders, to ensure we take into account a range of different views.

Parliament will be able to scrutinise any statement of changes to the Immigration Rules under the normal process in due course.

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