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Answer: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The report said specifically that"““the increase in net immigration to the UK was not driven primarily by the economic performance of the UK or other countries.””" Instead, the report points to immigration policy. The fact is that the previous Government quadrupled immigration and let an extra 2.2 million people into the country. The answer is to deal with the bogus colleges, and we are doing that; to put a limit on economic migration from outside the EU, and we are doing that; and to have proper border controls and a border police command, and we are doing that as well.

This is an answer to the Prime Minister's question asked on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 by Sheryll Murray (Conservative).

Question: Has the Prime Minister seen the OECD and National Institute of Economic and Social Research findings this week, which show that soaring immigration was caused not by the prospect of prosperity but by the open-door policies of the previous Government—and will he prevent that from happening again

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