Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department have made of the impact of immigration levels on housing availability.

Net migration is too high and this Government is determined to bring it down to sustainable levels to help protect public services and housing supply against unsustainable pressure.

That is why on 23 May, the Government introduced a package of measures to help deliver its goal of reducing net migration. The package includes removing the right for international students to bring dependants unless they are on research postgraduate courses, and removing the ability for international students to switch out of the student route into work routes before their studies have been completed.

We keep all our immigration policies under review to ensure that they best serve the UK and reflect the public’s priorities.