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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many child refugees have attended (a) primary, (b) secondary, and (c) post-16 schools in England since 2015, broken down by (i) local authority, and (ii) year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring order and control: a statement on the Government’s asylum and returns policy, published on 17 November 2025, what assessment her Depa
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her department’s policy paper entitled Restoring order and control: a statement on the Government’s asylum and returns policy, published on 17 November 2025, what assessment her Depa
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on the planning contravention notice issued by Wealden District Council on the proposed accommodation of asylum seekers at the Crowborough Training Camp.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for Housing and Planning on 21 November (HC88648), whether they have a general policy on cancelling 'article 4' directions submitted by local authorities to remove per
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
Ensure simpler and clearer routes for asylum seekers to obtain residence, ILR & citizenship. Reduce unnecessary delays, avoid retrospective changes, and provide stable rules that allow people who have lived in the UK for years to integrate fully. Introduce fair timelines and streamlined processing. Many asylum seekers spend years in the UK building lives, families and communities, yet face complex pathways and long delays before gaining stable status. Clear and easier routes to residence, ILR and citizenship would support integration, reduce administrative burden, and improve wellbeing. Fair rules also ensure consistency, avoid retrospective disruption, and help people contribute fully to society and the economy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
The government should retain the 5-year ILR pathway for existing refugees and current Skilled Worker visa holders. The new rules should apply only to new arrivals including benefits restriction. Refugees should not be required to wait 20 years to obtain settlement. Extending ILR to 10 or 20 years would unfairly affect refugees and Skilled Workers. The government should maintain the 5-year ILR for existing refugees, current Skilled Workers, and those who applied for asylum before new laws. No benefit restrictions should apply to recognised refugees and those who get ILR following current rules. Increasing ILR to 20 years would disrupt lives, create uncertainty, affect housing, employment, family stability, and children’s future opportunities.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
We want the Government to keep the 5-year ILR route for refugees and commit to ensuring that any new rules or benefit restrictions do not apply to those already holding refugee status or already on the existing pathway to ILR. We believe applying new rules or benefit restrictions to refugees already on the 5-year ILR pathway would breach legal certainty and fairness. The Government must honour its promises to those who relied on existing rules. We think that changing them now would disrupt lives, undermine integration, and create hardship, threatening the wellbeing and stability of refugee families and communities.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
We request that the UK Government ensure the newly announced asylum and immigration rules are not applied retrospectively to individuals who already hold refugee status. Refugees are relied on the UK’s previously published rules, including the 5-year route to Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). Altering their pathway after approval or after submission would undermine the principles of legal certainty, legitimate expectation, and non-retroactivity, which are fundamental to UK administrative and immigration. This approach is consistent with the UK’s Human Rights Act, including protections for private and family life under Article 8 ECHR, and with the long-standing UK commitment that policy changes should not destabilise those who have already acted in good faith under previous rules.
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 24 November 2025
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 18 November 2025 on Asylum Policy (Official Report, Vol.775, c.509-513), whether equalities impact assessments have been made for the new measures announced.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department offers (a) bonuses and (b) financial incentives to asylum caseworkers for meeting targets and clearing backlogs.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of reducing the move-on period for newly recognised refugees from 56 days to 28 days on (a) rates of refugee homelessness and (b) local authority b
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her department has recovered from asylum hotel providers in excess profits in each year since the creation of the contract, broken down by provider.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria determined the order in which asylum accommodation hotels were prioritised for contract termination since 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications for political asylum have been made in Northern Ireland in each of the past eight quarters; and what are the ten countries from which the most applications have been received.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on contract termination for hotels originally commissioned for asylum seeker accommodation since 2023.
European Union · European Parliament · 24 November 2025
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
We ask the UK Government not to increase the ILR qualifying period for refugees. They have already been found at risk of persecution and harm. Extending the timeline would prolong instability, worsen trauma, and create safeguarding risks for vulnerable people. Refugees already recognized as at risk of persecution should not face longer uncertainty. Extending the ILR qualifying period prolongs trauma, destabilizes lives, and increases safeguarding risks. Timely settlement protects mental and physical wellbeing, enables integration, and honours the UK’s responsibility to shield those fleeing serious harm.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
The speech of Home Secretary put many people in stress ..where she mentioned people refugee going to get ilr in 20 years. Its totally unfair unjustified Many refugee see UK as a new home and working hard to build their future in this country. New rule for new applicants not the existing !
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
The Government should not apply these new rules on refugees who are already here in the uk and have been granted asylum and are on the route to ILR.They should look into this. Because the government and parliament they make policies and they have control of it
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
We urge the UK to exempt refugees from the 10-year settlement rule, restore the fair 5-year route, and improve fingerprint/data-sharing agreements to manage irregular migration without harming genuine refugees. Purpose of the Petition: To ensure fairness, stability, and humane treatment for refugees, while supporting effective management of irregular migration. Our appeal to the Government: To reconsider these policy changes and adopt an approach that protects vulnerable people, strengthens integration, and upholds the UK’s long-standing commitment to humanitarian protection.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
We call upon the Government to legally guarantee that any new asylum and immigration rules will not be applied retroactively. Individuals and families who have already been granted leave to remain in the UK - including refugees, those on family visas, and other work visas. We urge the Government to honour its original commitment. Maintain the existing 5-year ILR rules for everyone already on this pathway, and apply any new system only to future applicants. Fairness and justice must be the foundation of the UK's immigration system.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
Pass a law that allows asylum seekers to work as soon as possible to reduce pressure on public funds and so they can support themselves. Create a 5-year route to ILR for asylum seekers who follow the law, contribute to society, and live safely in the UK. Many asylum seekers wait years without the right to work, which can lead to poverty, stress, and dependence on government support. Allowing them to work could help the economy, improves mental health, and lets people support their families with dignity. A 5-year ILR path could give stability, reduce uncertainty, and help people build safe, productive lives in the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
Introduce clear transitional protections so that refugees already granted status, or already on a pathway to settlement, are allowed to continue under the rules that applied when they first received protection. The Government’s consultation on settlement reform proposes major changes that could affect people who have already been granted refugee status but have not yet reached ILR. This has caused uncertainty and anxiety. Transitional protections would ensure fairness, stability and clarity for vulnerable refugees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
I want the Government to exempt refugees who are sole carers of children who are British citizens from any changes to the current pathway to indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK. I think they should remain on the previous, shorter route to ILR to protect child welfare and family stability. I think that extending their pathway to ILR undermines their rights under Article 8 ECHR (family life).
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
Keep the clear 5-year route to ILR for everyone who receives protection in the UK. This must cover people currently waiting for an asylum decision and those already granted refugee status or humanitarian protection. Do not introduce longer waiting periods. The 5-year route to ILR must be kept for all people granted protection, regardless of when they applied. Denying the clear 5-year pathway—especially to those already waiting—causes extreme hardship and uncertainty. Stability is key to integration. We need to ensure a consistent, fair, and humane system that allows refugees to fully contribute to the UK after five years, not ten. Fairness demands stability for all
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
Exempt all individuals already granted asylum or humanitarian protection from any proposed changes to increase the ILR qualifying period. Maintain the 5-year route to settlement for these groups to ensure fairness, aid integration, and honor the established commitment. Increasing the ILR period from 5 years to 10 for people already granted asylum is unfair. They were granted protection under the established 5-year route. This change causes immense anxiety and hinders their ability to fully integrate and rebuild their lives. Honour the original 5-year commitment.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
We ask the Government to create a 5-year ILR route for legal asylum seekers who entered the UK lawfully and have been living here legally while their asylum claims are pending. Many legal asylum seekers have lived in the UK for years, contributing to communities and raising families while waiting for decisions. A 5-year settlement route would give fairness, stability, and dignity, reduce Home Office delays, and help integration into British society.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
We ask the Government to maintain the current 5-year route to settlement for refugees and people granted humanitarian protection, and not extend it to 10 years. This ensures stability, fairness, and consistency for individuals who built their plans based on existing rules. Extending the settlement route from 5 to 10 years would create hardship for refugees and humanitarian protection holders who are rebuilding their lives after fleeing danger. Many have already structured their plans, education, work, and family stability around the current 5-year pathway. Changing the rules would increase uncertainty, delay integration, and place additional emotional and financial pressures on vulnerable people. Keeping the 5-year route protects fairness and stability.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
Government plans to extend the ILR period from 5 years to 20/30 years, creating long-term uncertainty for thousands of refugees on the 5-year route. We ask the Government not to apply this change retrospectively and to provide a fair transitional arrangement so those already on the 5-year route. Changing the qualifying period for people who have already lived, worked, and integrated in the UK under the existing rules would create unnecessary hardship and instability. A fair exemption or transitional policy would prevent this and maintain trust in the UK immigration system.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2025
Ensuring permanent residency after five years of continuous legal residence is a fundamental pillar of psychological, social, and economic stability for refugees, enabling them to integrate effectively and contribute to society. Maintaining the course of permanent residence after five years without change or unjustified tightening. Ensure that assistance to the most vulnerable continues to be provided for appropriate, integration period determined by government agencies to ensure effective and sustainable integration. We hope that the government will consider these demands, which reflect the spirit of justice and humanity, and maintain the stability of society and the effectiveness of migration and integration policies.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 November 2025
Please keep the 5-year settlement route for refugees who already have status. We survived trauma and years of uncertainty to finally feel safe. Don’t push us back into fear with longer routes. If rules change, they must not be applied to those already recognised. Many refugees, including survivors of human trafficking, endured years of trauma before finally finding safety in the UK. Changing our path to a longer route now would take away the security we have just begun to build. We should not be forced back into fear or instability after overcoming so much. The Government must honour the commitment made when our status was granted.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 November 2025
We ask the Government to ensure that new immigration and ILR rules are not applied retrospectively to refugees who already arrived in the UK. People who entered the UK under previous rules should continue under the system they were initially assessed with. Applying new immigration rules retroactively would unfairly punish refugees who have already built their lives in the UK, followed the legal process, and contributed to their communities. Retrospective law changes undermine legal certainty, stability, and trust in the immigration system.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
We call on the UK Government to preserve the current 5-year route (ILR) for refugees and people with humanitarian protection. We believe that proposals to extend this period to 10 or even 20 years would create severe, long-term hardship for millions of people including children who call the UK their only home. Many refugees have already suffered war, violence, persecution, and trauma. We think keeping them in temporary status for 10–20 years, without a stable path to settlement, is inhumane, and it could prevent families from healing, integrating, and contributing fully to society. We urge the Government to protect the existing 5-year ILR route and ensure that refugees can rebuild their lives in safety, stability, and dignity. Finally, for many of us, this is not just about rules, we walk under a sky that offers no safety and upon a ground that gives no stability.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
We oppose applying new 10/20 year settlement rules retrospectively to 5-year protection holders. This undermines legal certainty and creates pressure. Government must guarantee current holders complete their route. We oppose the retroactive application of new 10- or 20-year settlement rules to those granted five-year protection. Retroactively extending a pathway undermines legal certainty and the legitimate expectations arising from existing decisions. The new conditions create psychological pressure and exclusion for legal residents. We urge the government to ensure that existing protection holders can complete their pathways without the new conditions; this is vital for public trust and legal integrity.
Austria · National Council · 21 November 2025
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rosa Ecker, MBA, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Finanzen betreffend Verlängerung der Familienleistungen für ukrainische Vertriebene
Austria · National Council · 21 November 2025
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Susanne Fürst, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten betreffend NGO-Business: Erneut Millionen an Steuergeld für fragwürdige internationale Organisationen und Initiativen
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took following the approval of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme Delivery Model Assessment final report by the programme board on 30 June 2025.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the number and proportion of asylum seekers who previously entered the UK on a) a visa or b) other leave with relevant
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the number and proportion of people claiming asylum who entered the UK on a work visa.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the number and proportion of Bangladeshi asylum seekers who arrived in the UK on a) visas or b) other leave in the year t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy, updated on 20 November 2025, what criteria her Departme
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the Asylum Support Payments contract as part of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy, updated on 20 November 2025, what processes will be put
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy, updated on 20 November 2025, what criteria her Departme
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy, updated on 20 November 2025, what criteria her Departme
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy, updated on 20 November 2025. what support her Departmen
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy, updated on 20 November 2025, when she plans to announce
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy, updated on 20 November 2025, what support will be provi