Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Bill Grant Excerpts
Monday 10th June 2019

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Nokes Portrait Caroline Nokes
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My hon. Friend rightly raises the Government’s concern that allowing children to sponsor close family members might create incentives for more children to be encouraged or even forced to leave their families and risk a hazardous journey to the UK in order to sponsor relatives at a later date. I am sure he agrees that we absolutely want to avoid that because it could play into the hands of criminal gangs already exploiting vulnerable people.

Bill Grant Portrait Bill Grant (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (Con)
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6. What plans he has for the UK's future immigration system.

Sajid Javid Portrait The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sajid Javid)
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In December 2018 the Government set out their proposals for a future immigration system in a White Paper, “The UK’s future skills-based immigration system”. The new system will be focused on those with the skills that the country needs, who will bring the most benefit to the United Kingdom.

Bill Grant Portrait Bill Grant
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My constituency needs migrant workers to support local industry—particularly, but not exclusively, in the health, hospitality, fishing and farming sectors. Will my right hon. Friend reassure my constituents that there will be sufficient flexibility in any post-Brexit immigration system to allow those sectors to flourish?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I am happy to give my hon. Friend that reassurance. We recognise that the future system must work for the valuable industries that make this nation great. We are working with many businesses and employers, including some in the sectors that my hon. Friend has listed, to ensure there is proper engagement which will achieve precisely what he has described.