Population: International Migration Debate

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Department: Home Office

Population: International Migration

Lord Skelmersdale Excerpts
Monday 16th March 2015

(9 years, 8 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Stowell of Beeston Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con)
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My Lords, it is the turn of the Labour Benches.

Lord Bates Portrait Lord Bates
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It could well be that when the Prime Minister made those remarks the country was in the depths of despair in 2010. Since then, we have had a jobs miracle. We are creating more jobs than the rest of Europe put together. As a result of that, not surprisingly, the place where people want to come to find work is the only place where the jobs are being created. That is in the UK.

Lord Skelmersdale Portrait Lord Skelmersdale
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My Lords, would my noble friend accept that the real problem is not immigration but integration?

Lord Bates Portrait Lord Bates
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That is a more philosophical point—and a good one. It is one reason why we need to work on those other programmes of integration through the education system and through ensuring that people have a sense of what British values are and feel part of this country.