Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the effect of low-skilled migration on the economy in each of the last five years.

No such estimate has been made but the independent Migration Advisory Committee report ‘EEA migration in the UK: Final report’ concluded “the benefits for existing residents of high-skilled migration seem clear. The evidence is less clear on whether low-skilled migration (perhaps those in the bottom 25 per cent of the earnings distribution) has had costs or been broadly neutral”.