Home Secretary’s Announcement

29 February 2012

Commenting on the Home Secretary’s announcement that migrant workers will need to earn £35,000 to qualify for permanent settlement, Frank Field and Nicholas Soames said: “This is absolutely the right way to go. Companies must have the staff they need for growth and net migration must be brought down from its present absurdly high level. […]

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Two thirds of births in London are to a foreign born parent

21 February 2012

Today it was revealed, in response to a parliamentary question from the Rt. Hon. Nicholas Soames MP, Co-Chairman of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration, that in 2010 two thirds of all births in London are to parents where one or both are foreign born. This rises to 84% in Newham and 81% in […]

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Response to the speech given by the Immigration Minister on the 2nd February

2 February 2012

Damian Green Speech In response to the speech given by Damian Green MP at Policy Exchange today, Frank Field and Nicholas Soames said: “This proposal to break the almost automatic link between coming here to work and getting settlement has to be the right way to go. It will allow British business to employ the […]

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