{"id":3131,"date":"2020-06-29T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/what-to-watch-for-as-mps-debate-the-immigration-bill"},"modified":"2020-06-29T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:43:00","slug":"what-to-watch-for-as-mps-debate-the-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/what-to-watch-for-as-mps-debate-the-immigration-bill","title":{"rendered":"What to watch for as MPs debate the Immigration Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today MPs will be debating and voting on the Immigration Bill, which sets out plans for the immigration system after Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>How it works<br \/>\nIn Committee stage, which finished last week, a group of MPs went through the Bill line by line, making amendments. Today\u00a0the updated Bill returns to the Commons, where MPs will debate further changes, before voting on the Bill in its entirety.\u00a0<br \/>\nYou can watch the debate live on Parliament TV, and follow us on Twitter for the latest updates. And you can find the full detail of the amendments in our briefing to MPs, here.<\/p>\n<p>The changes we want to see<br \/>\n1.\u00a0Lift the &#8220;No Recourse to Public Funds&#8221; rule which leaves migrants with nothing.\u00a0<br \/>\nNo one should be left without support &#8211; particularly in this pandemic. Rules that bar migrants from basic support like Universal Credit leave many facing abject poverty &#8211; around 1.4m people in the UK are affected by the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition. NRPF must be scrapped \u2013 j&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today MPs will be debating and voting on the Immigration Bill, which sets out plans for the immigration system after Brexit. How it works In Committee stage, which finished last week, a group of MPs went through the Bill line by line, making amendments. Today\u00a0the updated Bill returns to the Commons, where MPs will debate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}