Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of EU workers arriving in the UK would not have qualified for a highly-skilled work permit in each of the last five years.

Illustrative analysis set out in the ‘The UK’s future skills-based immigration system’ estimates applying a RQF3+ skills threshold and £30,000 salary threshold (though there will be discussions with businesses and employers on the appropriate threshold) could reduce annual inflows of EEA long-term workers by around 80 per cent.

This analysis does not consider how firms and workers could potentially change behaviour in response to changes, or impacts from proposals other than applying a RQF3+ skills threshold and £30,000 salary threshold.