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Immigration

Answer

Reforms across the immigration and asylum system introduce significant changes, and these will affect children. We will work with external stakeholders to shape policy development, including elements which will impact children.

Children are not a homogeneous cohort, and careful consideration will be given as to how children will be impacted when policy frameworks are applied in respect of them, in line with Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

There is no legal requirement to publish Child’s Impact Assessments and to commit to do so would be premature given that for many of the measures, policy development is ongoing. The decision on whether to publish will be taken by Ministers once the policy development stage has concluded.

The consultation for the earned settlement model, as proposed in ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’, was open to the public between 20 November 2025 and 12 February 2026. Contributions will now be analysed, and the findings will support the development of the final model. The Government will publish its response to the consultation in due course.

Economic and equality impact assessments will be conducted on the final model and also published in due course.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL15120

Session

2024-26

Subjects

Children Asylum Immigration Impact assessments

Link

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