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To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 28 March (WA 272–3), whether they have used the International Passenger Survey (IPS) figure of 27,000 Romanians migrating to the United Kingdom between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2010 to calculate overall long-term...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 28 March (WA 272–3), whether they have used the International Passenger Survey (IPS) figure of 27,000 Romanians migrating to the United Kingdom between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2010 to calculate overall long-term...
Asked by
Lord Laird
(Ulster Unionist Party)
Answered by
Baroness Verma
(Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Asked to reply
UK Statistics Authority
Answered on
1 May 2012
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, Director General for ONS, to Lord Laird, dated May 2012.
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 28 March (WA 272-3), whether they have used the International Passenger Survey (IPS) figure of 27,000 Romanians migrating to the United Kingdom between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2010 to calculate overall Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) figures for that country: and what assessment they have made of whether the Office for National Statistics Annual Population Survey figure of an increase in the Romanian-born population in the United Kingdom from 23,000 to 87,000 between 2007 and 2010 is a more effective measure than the IPS for the purpose of the calculation of LTIM (16940).
ONS uses the International Passenger Survey (IPS) data to estimate Long-Term International Migration (LTIM), with adjustments made for asylum seekers, people whose intentions change with regards to their length of stay, and migration to and from Northern Ireland. LTIM estimates adhere to the UN definition of a long-term international migrant, which states that a long-term migrant is a person who changes his or her country of usual residence for a period of at least a year According to the IPS, the net flow of long-term migrants from Romania between the year ending December 2007 and the year ending December 2010 was 23,000.
ONS have made an assessment of the different sources of data on international migration and published a report, available at the following link: http.//www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migrationl/population-by-country-of-birth-and-nationality/sources-of-international-migration-data/differences-between-sources-of-international-migration-data.pdf.
This research focused on the Labour Force Survey, Annual Population Survey (APS), International Passenger Survey and Long-Term International Migration, and highlighted that there were key definitional and coverage differences between the sources, which meant that data derived from these different sources are not directly comparable. For example, the APS is a stock estimate of UK residents that includes both short- and long-term migrants, whereas the IPS separately identifies the net flows of long-term migrants. ONS concluded that the IPS is currently the most appropriate source for the calculation of long-term international migration based on the UN definition of a long-term migrant.
Subjects
Immigration; Migration; Statistics; Romania
Date
1 May 2012
Reference
16940; 736 c459-60WA
House
House of Lords
My Lords, if the Government are not happy to change the system of permanent and temporary migration figures, and given that in the past they have said that they cannot always track students leaving the country, will they please consider using the HESA statistics, which record students when they leave the country—or, even better, get the border agency to ask students as they leave whether they have completed their studies rather than just where they are going?
My Lords, if the Government are not happy to change the system of permanent and temporary migration figures, and given that in the past they have said that they cannot always track students leaving the country, will they please consider using the HESA statistics, which record students when they leave the country—or, even better, get the border agency to ask students as they leave whether they have completed their studies rather than just where they are going?
Asked by
Baroness Brinton
(Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 April 2012
My noble friend goes on to a somewhat more detailed point, which I will have to look at. I would certainly be more than happy to do that and write to her.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1936
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, is this policy not the result of a basic intellectual confusion that has very serious and harmful effects? First, it distorts the statistics on immigration, which causes concern. Secondly, as we have heard, it is extremely harmful to universities and deters many would-be bona fide students from overseas countries, with a great loss of revenue. Thirdly, it seriously imperils relations with Commonwealth countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and India. Should we not think again?
My Lords, is this policy not the result of a basic intellectual confusion that has very serious and harmful effects? First, it distorts the statistics on immigration, which causes concern. Secondly, as we have heard, it is extremely harmful to universities and deters many would-be bona fide students from overseas countries, with a great loss of revenue. Thirdly, it seriously imperils relations with Commonwealth countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and India. Should we not think again?
Asked by
Lord Morgan
(Labour)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 April 2012
I think that if the noble Lord looks at the statistics he will find that there has actually been an increase in the number of students from Malaysia and Singapore. I appreciate that there has been a decline in the number from India, but there have been increases from elsewhere. Here we are talking about university students, and we have not seen an overall drop in those numbers.
Again I go back to the point that it is quite obvious that the noble Lord seeks to ask me to fiddle the figures. I do not want to do that.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1936
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, the department makes no distinction between temporary and permanent migration. Many other countries do, and still fall within the UN definitions. That means that the Home Office is targeting net migration figures that include overseas students, which is directly contrary to the policy of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Surely now that the e-Borders system will be able to track very closely non-EEA students and other citizens coming into this country, it is time to exclude those students from the net migration figures and have a unified government policy.
My Lords, the department makes no distinction between temporary and permanent migration. Many other countries do, and still fall within the UN definitions. That means that the Home Office is targeting net migration figures that include overseas students, which is directly contrary to the policy of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Surely now that the e-Borders system will be able to track very closely non-EEA students and other citizens coming into this country, it is time to exclude those students from the net migration figures and have a unified government policy.
Asked by
Lord Clement-Jones
(Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 April 2012
My Lords, I am afraid that in terms of migration my noble friend has got it right. I do not think he would want me to adjust the figures purely to achieve the ends that he suggests, as there might be complaints from the House that we were fiddling the figures, and I do not want to be accused of that. We stick by the long-standing international United Nations measure that students who come to the UK for more than a year are counted as migrants.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1934-5
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, as a student who stayed and was educated at school and university here, I have to say that many of us do not come here just to work but to contribute. We have a lot to contribute, and the current limitations mean that students from the Middle East, particularly from countries such as Iran but also elsewhere, cannot get access any more because the limits are so tight that anyone from outside the Commonwealth has enormous difficulty getting in. Some of us do make good.
My Lords, as a student who stayed and was educated at school and university here, I have to say that many of us do not come here just to work but to contribute. We have a lot to contribute, and the current limitations mean that students from the Middle East, particularly from countries such as Iran but also elsewhere, cannot get access any more because the limits are so tight that anyone from outside the Commonwealth has enormous difficulty getting in. Some of us do make good.
Asked by
Baroness Afshar
(Crossbench)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 April 2012
My Lords, I think the whole House is grateful that the noble Baroness came and stayed here, and for the contribution that she has made to the House, but she will also recognise that we have a duty to make sure that we have some control over our migration figures. We are trying, as I was trying to make clear earlier, to get some control over some of the more bogus applicants who claim that they were coming in to study, whereas in fact they were coming in for other purposes.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1936-7
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
I think that if the noble Lord looks at the statistics he will find that there has actually been an increase in the number of students from Malaysia and Singapore. I appreciate that there has been a decline in the number from India, but there have been increases from elsewhere. Here we are talking about university students, and we have not seen an overall drop in those numbers.
Again I go back to the point that it is quite obvious that the noble Lord seeks to ask me to fiddle the figures. I do not want to do that.
I think that if the noble Lord looks at the statistics he will find that there has actually been an increase in the number of students from Malaysia and Singapore. I appreciate that there has been a decline in the number from India, but there have been increases from elsewhere. Here we are talking about university students, and we have not seen an overall drop in those numbers.
Again I go back to the point that it is quite obvious that the noble Lord seeks to ask me to fiddle the figures. I do not want to do that.
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Asked by
Lord Morgan
(Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, is this policy not the result of a basic intellectual confusion that has very serious and harmful effects? First, it distorts the statistics on immigration, which causes concern. Secondly, as we have heard, it is extremely harmful to universities and deters many would-be bona fide students from overseas countries, with a great loss of revenue. Thirdly, it seriously imperils relations with Commonwealth countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and India. Should we not think again?
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1936
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I think the whole House is grateful that the noble Baroness came and stayed here, and for the contribution that she has made to the House, but she will also recognise that we have a duty to make sure that we have some control over our migration figures. We are trying, as I was trying to make clear earlier, to get some control over some of the more bogus applicants who claim that they were coming in to study, whereas in fact they were coming in for other purposes.
My Lords, I think the whole House is grateful that the noble Baroness came and stayed here, and for the contribution that she has made to the House, but she will also recognise that we have a duty to make sure that we have some control over our migration figures. We are trying, as I was trying to make clear earlier, to get some control over some of the more bogus applicants who claim that they were coming in to study, whereas in fact they were coming in for other purposes.
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Asked by
Baroness Afshar
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, as a student who stayed and was educated at school and university here, I have to say that many of us do not come here just to work but to contribute. We have a lot to contribute, and the current limitations mean that students from the Middle East, particularly from countries such as Iran but also elsewhere, cannot get access any more because the limits are so tight that anyone from outside the Commonwealth has enormous difficulty getting in. Some of us do make good.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1936-7
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I totally agree with the noble Lord in that I accept that students coming to universities—and I stress that the Question is purely about students coming to universities—provide very great value to this country, and we want to see their numbers increase in many areas. They have increased over the past year or so, as I understand it, but we want to get rid of some of the bogus students who come here not to study but to work—and that is what we are doing.
It is important that we stick to international UN definitions. As I said, there would be considerable criticism of me if I suggested that we should fix those figures purely for our own purposes.
My Lords, I totally agree with the noble Lord in that I accept that students coming to universities—and I stress that the Question is purely about students coming to universities—provide very great value to this country, and we want to see their numbers increase in many areas. They have increased over the past year or so, as I understand it, but we want to get rid of some of the bogus students who come here not to study but to work—and that is what we are doing.
It is important that we stick to international UN definitions. As I said, there would be considerable criticism of me if I suggested that we should fix those figures purely for our own purposes.
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Asked by
Lord Bilimoria
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, I have just returned from the annual UK-India round-table meeting, and this very question was raised. Why cannot the Government exclude foreign students from the target? Foreign students bring up to £8 billion of revenue into this country. In fact, the Government should be trying to double the number of foreign students from 440,000 to 800,000, bringing in another £8 billion. Does the Minister agree—I know this from experience, as my family was educated in this country from India for three generations—that by encouraging foreign students you build generation-long links, with huge benefit to this country?
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1935
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My noble friend is right to point out that quite a large number of students stay on, but the other point to make to her is that quite a number of people coming over in the past—not the university students that we are talking about—were coming over to colleges that did not really exist and were there purely as a scam to get around migration statistics. That is what we have been trying to deal with.
My noble friend is right to point out that quite a large number of students stay on, but the other point to make to her is that quite a number of people coming over in the past—not the university students that we are talking about—were coming over to colleges that did not really exist and were there purely as a scam to get around migration statistics. That is what we have been trying to deal with.
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Asked by
Baroness Knight of Collingtree
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, is it not the case that the situation has been made very much worse by the numbers of students who have come here from foreign countries and not left but remained here, making great difficulties? Is not that point at the heart of this difficulty?
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1935-6
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
The noble Lord is, yet again, another one who wants me to fix the figures. I do not want to do that. We want to do these things in a proper way, and the definition of migrants is that they are people staying for over a year. We welcome students and do what we can to get them, but we are not going to fix the figures in the manner that he suggests.
The noble Lord is, yet again, another one who wants me to fix the figures. I do not want to do that. We want to do these things in a proper way, and the definition of migrants is that they are people staying for over a year. We welcome students and do what we can to get them, but we are not going to fix the figures in the manner that he suggests.
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Asked by
Lord Howarth of Newport
(Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, if the Government were to accept the proposal put to them by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, would they not thereby confer a great benefit on UK universities and on bona fide international university students, as well as on our international standing, and at the same time be able to hit their own immigration target figures, which they have otherwise not a hope of achieving?
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1935
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, if the Government were to accept the proposal put to them by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, would they not thereby confer a great benefit on UK universities and on bona fide international university students, as well as on our international standing, and at the same time be able to hit their own immigration target figures, which they have otherwise not a hope of achieving?
My Lords, if the Government were to accept the proposal put to them by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, would they not thereby confer a great benefit on UK universities and on bona fide international university students, as well as on our international standing, and at the same time be able to hit their own immigration target figures, which they have otherwise not a hope of achieving?
Asked by
Lord Howarth of Newport
(Labour)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 April 2012
The noble Lord is, yet again, another one who wants me to fix the figures. I do not want to do that. We want to do these things in a proper way, and the definition of migrants is that they are people staying for over a year. We welcome students and do what we can to get them, but we are not going to fix the figures in the manner that he suggests.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1935
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I have just returned from the annual UK-India round-table meeting, and this very question was raised. Why cannot the Government exclude foreign students from the target? Foreign students bring up to £8 billion of revenue into this country. In fact, the Government should be trying to double the number of foreign students from 440,000 to 800,000, bringing in another £8 billion. Does the Minister agree—I know this from experience, as my family was educated in this country from India for three generations—that by encouraging foreign students you build generation-long links, with huge benefit to this country?
My Lords, I have just returned from the annual UK-India round-table meeting, and this very question was raised. Why cannot the Government exclude foreign students from the target? Foreign students bring up to £8 billion of revenue into this country. In fact, the Government should be trying to double the number of foreign students from 440,000 to 800,000, bringing in another £8 billion. Does the Minister agree—I know this from experience, as my family was educated in this country from India for three generations—that by encouraging foreign students you build generation-long links, with huge benefit to this country?
Asked by
Lord Bilimoria
(Crossbench)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 April 2012
My Lords, I totally agree with the noble Lord in that I accept that students coming to universities—and I stress that the Question is purely about students coming to universities—provide very great value to this country, and we want to see their numbers increase in many areas. They have increased over the past year or so, as I understand it, but we want to get rid of some of the bogus students who come here not to study but to work—and that is what we are doing.
It is important that we stick to international UN definitions. As I said, there would be considerable criticism of me if I suggested that we should fix those figures purely for our own purposes.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1935
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I am afraid that in terms of migration my noble friend has got it right. I do not think he would want me to adjust the figures purely to achieve the ends that he suggests, as there might be complaints from the House that we were fiddling the figures, and I do not want to be accused of that. We stick by the long-standing international United Nations measure that students who come to the UK for more than a year are counted as migrants.
My Lords, I am afraid that in terms of migration my noble friend has got it right. I do not think he would want me to adjust the figures purely to achieve the ends that he suggests, as there might be complaints from the House that we were fiddling the figures, and I do not want to be accused of that. We stick by the long-standing international United Nations measure that students who come to the UK for more than a year are counted as migrants.
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Asked by
Lord Clement-Jones
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, the department makes no distinction between temporary and permanent migration. Many other countries do, and still fall within the UN definitions. That means that the Home Office is targeting net migration figures that include overseas students, which is directly contrary to the policy of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Surely now that the e-Borders system will be able to track very closely non-EEA students and other citizens coming into this country, it is time to exclude those students from the net migration figures and have a unified government policy.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1934-5
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, the UK uses the internationally agreed definition of a migrant, which is someone coming to or leaving the United Kingdom for a period exceeding 12 months. It is right that students intending to stay for that period should be counted because during their stay they are part of the resident population and contribute to pressure on public services infrastructure. It is not appropriate to discount them from net migration statistics.
My Lords, the UK uses the internationally agreed definition of a migrant, which is someone coming to or leaving the United Kingdom for a period exceeding 12 months. It is right that students intending to stay for that period should be counted because during their stay they are part of the resident population and contribute to pressure on public services infrastructure. It is not appropriate to discount them from net migration statistics.
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Asked by
Lord Clement-Jones
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to excluding university-sponsored students from the United Kingdom's net migration statistics.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1934
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My noble friend goes on to a somewhat more detailed point, which I will have to look at. I would certainly be more than happy to do that and write to her.
My noble friend goes on to a somewhat more detailed point, which I will have to look at. I would certainly be more than happy to do that and write to her.
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Asked by
Baroness Brinton
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, if the Government are not happy to change the system of permanent and temporary migration figures, and given that in the past they have said that they cannot always track students leaving the country, will they please consider using the HESA statistics, which record students when they leave the country—or, even better, get the border agency to ask students as they leave whether they have completed their studies rather than just where they are going?
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1936
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, is it not the case that the situation has been made very much worse by the numbers of students who have come here from foreign countries and not left but remained here, making great difficulties? Is not that point at the heart of this difficulty?
My Lords, is it not the case that the situation has been made very much worse by the numbers of students who have come here from foreign countries and not left but remained here, making great difficulties? Is not that point at the heart of this difficulty?
Asked by
Baroness Knight of Collingtree
(Conservative)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 April 2012
My noble friend is right to point out that quite a large number of students stay on, but the other point to make to her is that quite a number of people coming over in the past—not the university students that we are talking about—were coming over to colleges that did not really exist and were there purely as a scam to get around migration statistics. That is what we have been trying to deal with.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1935-6
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to excluding university-sponsored students from the United Kingdom's net migration statistics.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to excluding university-sponsored students from the United Kingdom's net migration statistics.
Asked by
Lord Clement-Jones
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
For answer on
30 April 2012
Answered on
30 April 2012
My Lords, the UK uses the internationally agreed definition of a migrant, which is someone coming to or leaving the United Kingdom for a period exceeding 12 months. It is right that students intending to stay for that period should be counted because during their stay they are part of the resident population and contribute to pressure on public services infrastructure. It is not appropriate to discount them from net migration statistics.
Subjects
Overseas students; Migration; Statistics
Date
30 April 2012
Reference
736 c1934
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 19 March (WA 142–3), whether in their calculations for overall long-term international migration figures they have used International Passenger Survey figures whose standard error percentages mean that they are not considered reliable for practical...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 19 March (WA 142–3), whether in their calculations for overall long-term international migration figures they have used International Passenger Survey figures whose standard error percentages mean that they are not considered reliable for practical...
Asked by
Lord Laird
(Ulster Unionist Party)
Answered by
Lord Wallace of Saltaire
(Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
United Kingdom Statistics Authority
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
28 March 2012
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, Director General for ONS, to Lord Laird, dated March 2012.
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 19 March (WA 142–3), whether (1) in ONS calculations for overall Long-Term International Migration figures we have used International Passenger Survey figures whose standard error percentages mean that they are not considered reliable for practical purposes; if so, why we did so; and (2) what are the Annual Population Survey figures for Romanian population stocks resident in the United Kingdom since 1 January 2007. (HL16655).
In response to the first question, published estimates of long-term international migration (LTIM) are calculated from international passenger survey (IPS) data with adjustments for asylum seekers, people whose intentions change and migration to and from Northern Ireland. The IPS estimates that are incorporated in the published estimates of LTIM are considered reliable according to their standard error (SE) percentages. At the national level, IPS estimates are considered very reliable (SE 3%), but this reliability decreases as estimates are calculated for lower levels of detail, for example by geography, age, sex or nationality. An IPS estimate is not considered reliable for practical purposes when it has a standard error of larger than 25%. This applies when IPS data are used to calculate estimates of small groups of migrants.
In response to the second question, Table 1 below shows the estimated Romanian population living in the UK from 2007 to the most recent year available from the annual population survey.
"Note: CI = Confidence Interval""Source: Annual Population Survey""(APS), ONS"
"Source: Annual Population Survey""(APS), ONS"
"(APS), ONS"
| Table 1—Romanians resident in the UK by year since 2007 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | ||||
| Romanian Country of birth | Romanian Nationality | |||
| Year | Estimate | CI+/- | Estimate | CI +/- |
| January - December 2007 | 23 | 6 | 19 | 6 |
| January - December 2008 | 41 | 8 | 36 | 8 |
| January - December 2009 | 56 | 10 | 53 | 10 |
| January - December 2010 | 79 | 12 | 74 | 12 |
| July 2010 - June 2011 | 87 | 13 | 84 | 13 |
Subjects
Immigration; Migration; Statistics; Romania
Date
28 March 2012
Reference
16655; 736 c272-3WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the report of January 2012 by the Migrant Advisory Committee analysis of the impacts of migration.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the report of January 2012 by the Migrant Advisory Committee analysis of the impacts of migration.
Asked by
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Henley
(Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
14 March 2012
Her Majesty's Government are considering the Migration Advisory Committee report. Discussions are currently taking place across government with the aim of agreeing how best to reflect the recommendations in future migration policy impact assessments.
Subjects
Migration
Date
14 March 2012
Reference
16336; 736 c76-7WA
House
House of Lords
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the report on the analysis of the impacts of migration by the Migration Advisory Committee, if she will estimate the number of jobs unavailable to UK citizens due to immigration from EU member states.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the report on the analysis of the impacts of migration by the Migration Advisory Committee, if she will estimate the number of jobs unavailable to UK citizens due to immigration from EU member states.
Asked by
Lord Field of Birkenhead
(Labour)
Answered by
Damian Green
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
18 January 2012
For answer on
23 January 2012
Answered on
31 January 2012
The report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), Analysis of the Impacts of Migration, investigated the possible relationship between migration and the employment of British-born citizens. For EU migrants the MAC did not find estimates of the effect to be statistically significant.
Subjects
EU countries; Migrants; EU nationals; Migration; Unemployment
Date
31 January 2012
Reference
91431; 539 c557W
House
House of Commons