Charities that lobbied Shabana Mahmood to water down her care worker settlement rules received more than £1bn of taxpayers' cash
Mencap, the learning disabilities charity that publicly opposed Shabana Mahmood's earned-settlement principle, received more than £200m in public funds — the most of the 38 charities that lobbied ministers to dilute the crackdown.Mahmood's climbdown will reduce the number of people facing delayed settlement to just over 500,000, well down from nearly 800,000 under her original plans.
Thirty-eight charities that lobbied ministers to dilute Mahmood's immigration crackdown collectively received more than £1bn from public contracts and grants in their most recent financial year. Mencap, the largest recipient, took in over £200m while urging MPs to preserve the five-year settlement pathway for care workers.
Children's charity Barnardo's, which received £192m in public funding, told peers it objected to using earned settlement as the foundation for determining children's residency rights.
Migrant charity Praxis received nearly £1m in public grants yet called for earned settlement to be rejected 'entirely' and published a guide stating that undocumented arrivals should suffer no disadvantage when seeking to settle permanently.
A Home Office consultation analysis found that 66 per cent of charity submissions took the position that illegal arrivals should incur no penalty on the path to permanent settlement in Britain.
