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HANSARDIndefinite Leave to Remain: PovertyWhen migrants enter the UK on economic routes, it is expected that they will be able to support their families. We are maintaining that principle, and it is right that we look…09 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to Remain: PovertyWe understand how important the details of the proposals are to people, and that is precisely why the Government opened a public consultation to gather views on those proposals.…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Fast-Track Visas: Skilled US CitizensIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Ms Lewell. I thank the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) for securing the debate, and I am grateful for…04 Feb 2026HANSARD Fast-Track Visas: Skilled US CitizensI thank my hon. Friend for his point. I cannot comment on the individual case, because I am not aware of that. The ILR changes that we are making are broad. We had a long debate…04 Feb 2026HANSARD Fast-Track Visas: Skilled US CitizensI thank the hon. Member for his points. We are world leading in science. The visa system that we have created in the Home Office is there precisely to attract the top talent from…04 Feb 2026HANSARD Fast-Track Visas: Skilled US CitizensI thank the hon. Member for that good point. I do not have those numbers to hand, but I will write to him with that data, if we have it. We do have data for those leaving the…04 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI thank my hon. Friend for a point well made. This place never ceases to amaze me—but that is politics. Some Members have raised Unison’s campaign on sector-wide visas. There is a…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I am grateful to the petitioners in the Public Gallery, to my constituency neighbour, my hon. and learned Friend the…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainSome of the rule changes that we will introduce are firm, and that will be laid out today in my speech. Much of the proposal—for example, transitional arrangements—is very much…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI thank my hon. Friend for his considered intervention. I will go through my response to the debate, which will lay out exactly what changes are being made and what is going to…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI will not give way—I will make some progress, so that hon. Members can hear the meat of what I need to say. The Government recognise and value the long-term contribution of…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainThank you, Ms Lewell—this debate is much better organised than the Division we have just been through.02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI thank the hon. Member for his question. They are likely to be, in the case of rule changes; that decision has not been completely made, but Members can of course express their…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI thank my hon. Friend for making that good point, which we in the Home Office have discussed in detail many times. Indeed, that is why the issue is under consultation. It is…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI thank the hon. Member for his intervention. He is right that most migrants are not criminals. Most migrants are thoroughly decent people, and that is recognised by this…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainMy hon. Friend’s point is well made. I can assure her that that work is going on, and I will come to it shortly. Let me address some of the questions raised by hon. Members. One…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI have not in any way implied that all migrants go into social housing. My point was the increase of 2.2 million people who would have access to it, with 1.34 million already on…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainWhat I am not going to do is make up facts and figures on the spot, but I do not have an absolute fact to give my hon. and learned Friend. What I can say is that around 15% of…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI am going to make some progress. Turning to the subject of the first petition, people who come to the UK to take up a job make an important contribution to our economy and our…02 Feb 2026HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainI disagree. There is nothing in my language that is raising the temperature. The hon. Member would do well to listen to my praise of migrants in my contribution. I have made it…02 Feb 2026