Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the UK’s points-based immigration system in (a) reducing net migration and (b) attracting high-skilled workers.

The Government is determined to bring down historically-high levels of legal migration and tackle the root causes behind it. To succeed in reducing net migration, we need to reduce our economy’s reliance on overseas workers. That is why the Government is setting out a new approach, linking migration, skills and labour market policies to build a sustainable workforce for the future. In the Home Secretary’s written ministerial statement on 30 July 2024, she confirmed the Government supported the changes made as part of the net migration package announced by the previous Government and will continue to implement them.

The Government keeps all policies under review and regularly publishes Impact Assessments, including on 27 September 2024 publishing those related to the net migration package, as well as monthly migration statistics.