Home secretary Mahmood has declined to set out the full cost of revised settlement plans after the Government dropped proposals to extend the waiting period for settlement.
Mahmood said the financial implications of the revised approach would be laid out at a later stage. No figure was provided for the cost of abandoning or changing the earlier proposals.
The plans had included extending the wait for settlement, but that proposal has now been dropped. The Home Office has not yet released further details about the revised arrangements or explained when the full cost will be published.
For now, the Government’s position is that the financial information will be provided in future. The next significant development will be the publication of those details and any further explanation of how the settlement plans will operate.
