To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Oral Statement of 4 December 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report, column 41-43, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the changes to (a) visa and (b) immigration rules on seasonal industries, broken down by industry.
Answered on
12 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.