Charities that lobbied Shabana Mahmood to water down migrant settlement rules were handed over £1billion in public money
Nigel Farage, Reform UK leader, whose party said applicants who do not add value to Britain should have their citizenship rescinded, as Barnardo's — which received £192m in public money — told peers it opposed earned settlement as a basis for determining whether children could live safely in the UK.The lifetime net fiscal cost of settling care workers and their adult dependants in the UK between 2026 and 2030, which Charity Praxis helped lobby against by bringing over 500 people to Parliament to press around 100 MPs.
Thirty-eight charities that lobbied ministers to dilute Shabana Mahmood's care worker settlement rules had together received over £1 billion in public money through contracts and grants in their most recent financial year. On Tuesday, Mahmood acknowledged that her scaled-back reforms would yield savings "in the billions" but conceded the figure is well below the £10 billion projected under her original, stricter proposals.
Mencap, which received more than £200 million in public funding last year, urged MPs to preserve the five-year ILR pathway for care workers.
