Leaving the EU: Rights of EU Citizens Debate

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Department: Home Office

Leaving the EU: Rights of EU Citizens

Rebecca Pow Excerpts
Monday 5th November 2018

(6 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rebecca Pow Portrait Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane) (Con)
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Will the Minister reassure me that she intends to take control of our borders—that was so important to so many in the referendum—while continuing to attract the brightest, the best and the needed? That is so important to employers in my constituency, especially agriculturalists, the tourism trade and the care industry.

Caroline Nokes Portrait Caroline Nokes
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My hon. Friend points out the importance of controlling our own borders and being able to bring forward, for the first time in more than a generation, an immigration policy that will enable us to determine who comes here based on their skills, not on their nationality. It is a really important point that we should continue to be able to attract the brightest and the best, and we will be setting out full details of the future immigration policy in a White Paper, and indeed an immigration Bill, coming very soon.