Some immigrants may get “special treatment” and be exempted from a crackdown that will make it harder to settle in the UK, the Home Secretary has suggested.
Shabana Mahmood highlighted the prospect of transitional arrangements for certain groups of people, suggesting the likes of spouses and older people could be among those shielded from her plans to double the default qualifying time for permanent residency in the UK.
Mahmood’s proposals to make most immigrants wait at least 10, rather than five, years for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) and to apply it retrospectively to people already in the UK have triggered a major backlash, including from many Labour MPs.
She defended the plans and insisted that applying them to people already in the UK was in line with settled case law as set out in the courts, arguing that a departure from this would be a “very big change” and “would drive a coach and horses through a government’s legitimate ability to control the border”.
Mahmood highlighted the prospect of transitional arrangements in a message aimed at Labour rebels as she appeared at the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee, although a spokesman for the Home Secretary stressed afterwards that no decisions had yet been made.
She told the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee: “What I would say to colleagues who have concerns in this area – we’re consulting on transitional arrangements and we have received a lot of consultation responses on what the transitional arrangements should look like.
“What you’re not asking for is no retrospectivity; what you’re saying is have an exemption or special treatment for particular cohorts of people that are in the system at the moment.
“Which is fair enough as governments sometimes provide exemptions or bespoke new routes as well, and we received consultation responses on all of those.”
Mahmood also discussed some of the areas where transitional measures may apply.
“All aspects of the policy are yet to be settled; this hasn’t been a fake consultation exercise where the Government already knows all of the policy and is just sort of looking like we ask for views,” she said.
“There will be lots of transitional arrangements that haven’t had a lot of air time and debate publicly on spouses, on older household members, on whether you look at household income or individual income, and of course the policy on children remains to be settled.”
Speaking afterwards, a spokesman for Mahmood said: “As the Home Secretary said to the Committee, we are consulting on whether there should be transitional arrangements for some people in the UK today who have not received settled status. We are currently reviewing the 200,000 responses and no decisions have been made.”
Meanwhile, Mahmood said the controversial use of military bases was the “future” of housing asylum seekers as she insisted the Government was on track to close all asylum hotels by 2029.
Last week, The i Paper revealed that the Home Office was forced to abandon plans to send 300 asylum seekers to a military base in the Scottish Highlands in the face of legal objections, although later in the week Mahmood announced plans to use three more Ministry of Defence (MoD) sites to house migrants.
Mahmood told the committee: “Military bases we see as the future of asylum accommodation.
“We think that can actually have better impact with the ability of crowding services on a site as opposed to other models.
“We have seen the stresses and strains of other accommodation such as hotel use.
“The expansion of use of military sites is a key plank of government policy in this area.”
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