New guidance has now been issued (9th May 2022) see this post: https://youreable.livingmadeeasy.org...l=1#post177355
Written Statement on Managed Migration from Therese Coffee published yesterday. (25th April 2022).
https://questions-statements.parliam...-04-25/hcws780
See Also Post #6 below.
Apparently the Pilot, which only managed to migrate 38 out of 80 people, "provided valuable insights" and "allowed the department to understand the processes and tools required to complete a managed move".
Really, all that from 38 pilot migrations?
She frequently refers to Managed Migration as "Mandatory Migration".
There is a sneaky semi-legal reason for that:
She has to call it "Mandatory Migration" to distinguish that it's still the limited pilot legislation and not actual "Managed Migration" which they don't have the required legislation for yet.
She states again that they will not be restarting the pilot but will start next month with "a multi-site approach across the country with a small number of claimants, approximately five hundred initially, being brought into the mandatory migration process."
She contradicts herself in a couple of places, eg.
"As I have said to the House previously, we are not resuming the Harrogate pilot."
and then
"We are resuming under existing regulations,"
Come on lass, you are either not resuming or you are resuming, you can't have both.
That wording seems to be because although not restarting the pilot they are using the legislation passed for the pilot - "Mandatory Migration".
She is trying to get around the legal requirement to report the findings/conclusions from the pilot to parliament as required by the legislation that allowed the pilot, so that parliament can then scrutinise/review things before granting permission for full Managed Migration to take place.
In plain language she is trying to claim they have 'more experience' as a reason to push through now exactly what parliament rejected before.
She does note, although quietly, that the new legislation to allow full Managed Migration to take place is currenty being criticised by the Social Security Advisory Committee.
That's because the new legislation tries to wipe out the limits and reporting required by the pilot legislation.
Who knows what parliament will say about that when it gets to them?
I suspect the government will try to sneak it through quietly when parliament is busy with something else (a resigning PM perhaps), or even as an 'emergency' act under Covid rules.
Oh, and apparently UC is a part of their 'Leveling Up' agenda.
Funny that, UC was in place long before they came up with the fiction of 'Leveling Up'.