Sentences with phrase «migration target»

The coalition is unlikely to meet the coalition's net migration target in 2011, when the total is expected to exceed 200,000.

The new home secretary said he would have to see the internal migration targets before taking a further view on them.

The policy requires everyone to show documentation to access NHS care, rent property, open bank accounts — all as a means to implement the government's arbitrary net migration target.

Theresa May admits her government failed to meet its net migration target set before the last election.

Writing in The Guardian, Dave Penman said: «Since 2010, the net migration target of 100,000 has acted as a lightning rod for a series of legislative attempts to cut migration and a crackdown on illegal immigrants as the Conservatives felt the electoral pressure from Ukip, and it was clear there were few medals to be awarded in the Home Office for anyone trying to advise a more cautious approach.

«Two of our forecasts show that the Conservatives will meet their net migration target after all, even without any changes to immigration policy,» researcher Ben Richards said.

But if it did reflect a sustained trend, it would lead to a 58 % drop in net migration by next year, meaning the Conservatives would hit their net migration target by 2019, but at a terrible economic cost.

She said «low - skilled migration is too high, overall migration from the EU is too high», but said she opposed an arbitrary EU migration target, adding that the goal of reducing EU migration was designed to prevent a race to the bottom by employers.

Yvette Cooper has promised that Labour will scrap Cameron's single net migration target on the grounds that it has «completely distorted» the government's immigration policy.

«The Home Secretary has long argued that freedom of movement rules should be a priority target for the EU renegotiation — not only is she personally committed on the issue, she surely knows that the repeated failure to hit the Government's stated migration target threatens her reputation as a minister.

Whether Labour would keep the net migration target remains to be seen.

Diane Abbott said she would close two main detention centres, axe migration targets and force officials to prove suspects were in Britain without permission.

Home Secretary Theresa May has said her party's immigration policy was credible, despite admitting the government failed to meet its net migration target set before the last election.

Countless restrictive measures have been placed on almost every migration stream since 2010, when the coalition government set itself a flawed net migration target.

But what's most concerning is that, even if you accept the mad logic of the net migration target, there is no evidence that the policy works.

Would the reductions Brexit might bring be enough to enable the government to hit the «tens of thousands» net migration target?

The prime minister is still pursuing the same agenda as before - there's less talk of a «no deal» Brexit and the net migration target has receded from view, but she is still committed to leaving the single market and customs union and cutting immigration.

«The net migration target, which was not government policy, has clearly had a damaging impact on UK plc by reducing the talent pool available to companies based here,» business secretary Vince Cable said.

Labour's Yvette Cooper presses the home secretary on whether she backs the net migration target.

Theresa May last year came under intense pressure from George Osborne and Business Secretary Sajid Javid to take students out of the net migration target.

She said: «Is he also concerned that given the number of Home Office decisions that were got wrong on these Windrush cases about a wider culture of disbelief, about whether a net migration target is distorting decisions and also about the lack of checks and balances in the system to prevent injustices?»

Abbott will renew Labour's commitment at the last general election to scrap the government's «false and unworkable net migration target» of bringing levels down to below 100,000 a year.

As Jo Valentine, chief executive of London First, said: «International students are made to feel unwelcome because of anti-immigration rhetoric — and the fact that they are currently included in the government's net migration target.

But now consternation at the net migration target, and its associated caps, appears to be spreading.

But Ms Cooper — who is now the chair of the Commons Home Affairs Committee — hit back, telling the Prime Minister: «Do not try to hide behind me or the Labour Party when she was warned repeatedly of the damage her obsession with her net migration target was doing.

«In advance of your forthcoming visit to India, where applications to UK universities have been particularly badly affected, we are therefore writing to you to ask you to reconcile the remaining tensions between visa policy and aspirations for growth by removing international university students from the net migration target.»

That is what led to the infamously flawed net migration target.

But the ideas were met with fury from leave campaigners who want to see meaningful strides towards reducing our net migration targets.

But the plans were met with fury from leave campaigners who want to see meaningful strides towards reducing our net migration targets.

In her conference speech, the shadow home secretary confirmed that Labour would drop the Conservatives» failed net migration target and would abolish elected police and crime commissioners.

Last month Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, said the net migration target was «not sensible» because it hinged on factors largely beyond the Government's control - such as EU migration and Britons leaving or returning to the UK.

When statistics are published later this year, on the number of Romanians and Bulgarians who entered the UK after work restrictions were lifted, the net migration target is likely to be even further away.

And Nick Clegg accused the Tories of being «preoccupied» with a migration target they had «no control» over.

In the face of these challenges, it seems counterproductive to force out valued members of staff for the sake of meeting a migration target.»

The 20,700 cap on skilled non-EU immigration was introduced in 2011 to help the Government to reach the «tens of thousands» net migration target, and until now has done little to actually reduce skilled migration.