Home Affairs Committee - First Report
Immigration Cap

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 25 October 2010.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Key facts

1 Introduction

The Government's immigration policy

Scope of the Committee's inquiry

2 Immigration figures

Migration data

The Government's figures: net long term immigration

Gross long-term immigration

Non-work routes

3 Whom will the cap affect?

Inflow and outflow

Cap will not affect EEA immigrants

Proportion of immigrants affected by cap

4 Impact on business and services

Highly skilled migrants

Recruiting needed skills

Location factors for businesses

Tax and investment

Public sector jobs

Merging Tier 2 routes

Exempting intra-company transfers?

5 Dependants

6 Level of the cap

7 Students

8 Administering the cap

Raising the points requirement

Allocating visas

First come, first served

Pooling system

Auction

Timing of application

Parliamentary scrutiny

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence from oral witnesses

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the last Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

20 July 2010
7 September 2010
14 September 2010
Written Evidence

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Prepared 3 November 2010