Limits on Non-EU Economic Migration Debate

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Department: Home Office

Limits on Non-EU Economic Migration

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Monday 28th June 2010

(14 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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Whenever we talk about net migration, we always tend to talk about the numbers coming in, forgetting the large numbers of people going out. Given that under the previous Government net migration reached record levels, it would have been even higher had hundreds of thousands of British skilled workers not got fed up with Brown’s Britain and left to go and work abroad. Will my right hon. Friend work with her colleagues across Government to ensure that Britain’s skilled workers are incentivised to stay in Britain?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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I thank my hon. Friend for that point. The good news for those many workers is that this is no longer Brown’s Britain.