Immigration White Paper

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Excerpts

Monday 5th February 2018 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con)]

My Lords—

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Con)]

My Lords, order. This side.

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[Baroness Vere of Norbiton]

I thank my noble friend for her question. I am afraid I am not able to answer the questions that she has raised about the numbers we are looking at and the forecast for our public services. I can say, however, that we are working very hard to improve the quality of the data we use for immigration forecasting. We are working very closely with the ONS and other parts of government to improve the quality and use of administrative data. We need a better understanding of how many migrants are in the UK, how long they stay for and what they are currently doing. The ONS will be reporting back within a year, and we look forward to its report.

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock]

My Lords—

[Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen]

My Lords, we have had 10 minutes. We are now moving on to the next Question.

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock]

My Lords—

[Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen]

Order. Lord O’Shaughnessy.