Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Julian Brazier Excerpts
Monday 5th December 2016

(7 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Goodwill Portrait Mr Goodwill
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If the hon. Gentleman were to examine the evidence of the Fresh Talent scheme, which the Scottish Government reviewed in 2008, he would see that only 44% of those applicants remained in Scotland, and more than half of those jobs were not appropriate for the level of education of those who took them.

Julian Brazier Portrait Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a good reason why immigration is a reserved power, and that the slippery slope that the Scottish nationalists are trying to take us down would, if taken to its logical conclusion, end up with a border?

Robert Goodwill Portrait Mr Goodwill
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I am always very careful not to get on to slippery slopes, as one ends up at the bottom of the hill in a bad place.