Limits on Non-EU Economic Migration

Angus Brendan MacNeil Excerpts

Monday 28th June 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mrs May]

My hon. Friend makes a valid point about the need for employers to see what they can do to ensure that unemployed people in this country can take up job opportunities. The policies that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is bringing forward will ensure that we give the support necessary to help people get into the workplace.

[Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)]

In my constituency fishermen from the Philippines have been very welcome in the fish-catching sector, especially as they have kept jobs in the fish-processing sector. Will the Home Secretary listen to specific information such as that when deciding the basis for work entry?

[Mrs May]

Let me say to the hon. Gentleman that that is the whole point of a consultation exercise.