Immigration: Equality

(asked on 7th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Oral Statement on 4 December 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report, columns 41-43, if he will have discussions with the Secretary of State on the potential impact of those proposals on gender equality in levels of legal migration; and if he will undertake an equality impact assessment of the proposals.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 12th December 2023

Our Points Based System enables the Government to prioritise the skills and talent we need to help our economy grow and support our NHS, while encouraging investment in, and protecting, our own resident workforce. In arriving at this package of measures, we have been mindful of the need to balance the impacts on economic growth and the needs of the labour market.

The Government regularly considers policy proposals and the impacts these will have. The policy proposals do not directly discriminate against people on the basis of the protected characteristics, there may be some indirect impacts. We consider the measures to be proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aims of managing immigration, attracting high-skilled individuals, controlling our borders and protecting the UK taxpayer.

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