| Heading: |
Immigration Controls |
| Question ID: |
1787666 |
| UIN: |
40501 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4358 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Wendy Morton
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| Asking Member handle: |
morton_wendy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@morton_wendy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory cap on levels of migration. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-26 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4253 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Seema Malhotra
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| Answering Member handle: |
SeemaMalhotra1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@SeemaMalhotra1
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| Answer text: |
This Government recognises and values the contribution that legal migration makes to the UK.But under the previous Government, between 2019 and 2024, net migration almost quadrupled, heavily driven by a big increase in overseas recruitment.A properly cont... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |