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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Farage, Reform UK leader, whose party said applicants who do not add value to Britain should have their citizenship rescinded, as Barnardo's — which received £192m in public money — told peers it opposed earned settlement as a basis for determining whether children could live safely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.
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Farage, Reform UK leader, whose party said applicants who do not add value to Britain should have their citizenship rescinded, as Barnardo's — which received £192m in public money — told peers it opposed earned settlement as a basis for determining whether children could live safely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.
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.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood declined to specify how much her watered-down care worker settlement plan will cost, admitting only that savings will be "in the billions" — far below the £10bn projected under her original 15-year wait proposal. Under the revised terms, foreign care workers earning at least £25,000 a year and in the UK before May 2025 will qualify for indefinite leave to remain after five years, sparing 282,000 migrants from delayed settlement. Senior Labour figures including housing secretary and energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh had resisted the original plans as "un-British". A full impact assessment will only be published when the new immigration rules are laid before Parliament.

Charities that lobbied for the U-turn received more than £1bn in taxpayer-funded contracts and grants, with Mencap alone taking over £200m.

Labour MP Rachel Maskell branded the remaining small boats measures "cruel" and warned up to 100 backbenchers are "privately unhappy" with the reforms.

Mahmood herself admitted the UK "hardly returned anyone" under the Dublin Convention, undermining Andy Burnham's claim that Brexit caused the small boats crisis.

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