Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, following their proposal in the Immigration White Paper published on 12 May to extend the standard qualifying period for settlement from five to 10 years, what consideration they have given to increasing awareness of children’s rights to British citizenship and the capacity of parents and carers to exercise these rights.

We will be consulting on both the earned settlement and citizenship schemes later this year and further details on the proposed schemes will be provided at that time.

This will include ensuring children who have been in the UK for some time and discover they do not have status, are fully supported to regularise their status.