Consultation launched on limiting immigration
皇冠体育app Migration Advisory Committee has today launched a consultation on the annual limit of the number of non-EU migrants admitted to work in the UK through Tiers 1 and 2 of the points-based system.
皇冠体育app government has asked the committee (MAC), as an independent expert body on migration, to provide advice on the level of the permanent economic migration limit for its first full year of operation. 皇冠体育app permanent limit is intended to be implemented from April 2011.
As well as the economic impacts, the MAC will take into account the social and public service impacts of immigration on the UK.听听
皇冠体育app consultation will be open for submissions until September 7, 2010, and the MAC advice will be presented to the government by the end of that month. A paper setting out the consultation questions and procedures for submitting evidence has been published today.
MAC statement
皇冠体育app committee chair, Professor David Metcalf, said, 鈥樆使谔逵齛pp Migration Advisory Committee is pleased that it has been asked to carry out this work and looks forward to working with its partners to develop robust and well-informed advice to the government.鈥�
Notes to editors聽
- 皇冠体育app government announced its consultation on an immigration limit on June 28. This is a separate consultation to that published today by the MAC.
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- 皇冠体育app advises the government on migration issues. It is a non-statutory, non-time-limited, non-departmental public body, sponsored by the UK Border Agency of the Home Office.