Sentences with phrase «immigration cap»

It faced difficult questions over child benefit reforms and suggestions it was watering down the planned immigration cap.

Speculation of a rift over the government's proposed immigration cap for non EU migrants had threatened to overshadow the prime minister's trip to India, where Mr Cameron is joined by Mr Cable and other key ministers for a trade delegation tour.

But government policy has been comandeered in service of it nonetheless, particularly in the case of immigration caps.

The challenge in the coming years will be whether the party is prepared to seriously oppose the Tories» economically ruinous immigration cap.

VC: Well, there is a constant battle going on behind the scenes, which often... Sometimes between us and the Conservatives, sometimes... I've been involved in a big battle over immigration caps and I have won that argument and that was mainly with the Conservative colleagues, but I had some allies like Oliver Letwin.

In that last six months, backbenchers could propose a tougher immigration cap, a tighter benefits cap, a British Bill of Rights, English votes for English laws - and so on.

Fleshing out the details of its controversial new immigration cap, the UK Border Agency announced today that it will give priority to scientists and engineers.

David Cameron has made an exception on the government's immigration cap for foreign businessmen, as he promises to turn the East End of London into a new Silicon Valley.

Ultimately Goodhart's solution of the immigration cap won't solve this, he argued.

With PCCs introduced, an immigration cap in place, the concept of regional immigration limits rejected, spending cuts to the police but crime falling regardless and even the now - famous «Go Home» vans, the Home Office is a round victory for the Conservatives.

The benefits and immigration cap.

Miliband opposed things like the immigration cap?

The introduction of an immigration cap for skilled workers entering the UK has made it extremely difficult for NHS Trusts to fill gaps in hospital rotas.

But, as the immigration cap controversy shows, the real risk stems from deepening division within the Cabinet.

Despite some mutterings from Vince Cable, the immigration cap is now being implemented as planned, albeit with a exception for those earning over # 150,000.

The removal of top - down government targets, the immigration cap and the creation of a mandatory referendum before any further powers can be transferred to Brussels were also flagged.

This is no doubt something which the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will be concerned to note, as they were very effective in lobbying for ICTs to remain outside the immigration cap.

The government should exempt SMEs from all new regulations, including all scheduled national minimum wage increases, pensions reforms, paternity leave extensions, the equality bill and the immigration cap.

vi) Immigration caps.

Vince Cable has called the Conservative's target for an immigration cap «absurd» and «totally unenforceable».

The revelation follows an intervention by the Office for Budget Responsibility yesterday claiming that the coalition's immigration cap would make it much harder to cut Britain's budget deficit.

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

Inter-company transfers will be exempted from the immigration cap.

George Osborne's intuition that benefit and immigration caps could drive a wedge between Ed Miliband and Labour's heartland working class voters has been confirmed by Downing Street's pollster Andrew Cooper.

To enable scientists to tap in the global scientific networks and collaborations, it would be beneficial if universities and research centers were separated from any immigration cap.