Overview
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood previewed reforms that would end permanent protection and make refugee status time-limited with reviews every 30 months, with returns expected for people from countries deemed safe.
- Those who entered legally would move to a 10-year path to permanent settlement, doubling the current five-year route.
- Financial and housing support would shift from a legal guarantee to discretionary assistance, with aid withheld from applicants considered able to work or who hold assets.
- The Home Office says the UK will match, and in some areas exceed, Denmark’s tougher standards after a delegation studied its model earlier this year.
- Ministers cite about 400,000 asylum claims in four years and more than 100,000 people on taxpayer-funded support, while refugee groups warn the plan creates prolonged uncertainty as full details are due Monday.