Sentences with phrase «net migration figures»

The scandal has provided a window into the murky depths of British immigration policy and, in particular, a set of policy decisions made in 2012 by the then Home Secretary Theresa May to ensure a «Hostile Environment» aimed at supporting a drive to reduce net migration figures.

The removal of international students from Britain's net migration figures is an important and symbolic step to achieving this.

The net migration figures - which we will get down to the tens of thousands by the end of this Parliament - show that the vast bulk of immigrants come from outside the European Union.

Home Secretary Theresa May was dispatched on to the airwaves in advance of the net migration figures to tell the nation that the forthcoming immigration bill will include tough measures to seize the wages of people caught working illegally in Britain.

Abbott is due to use her speech to outline the «fair and reasonable values» upon which Labour will base its immigration policy, a day before the quarterly publication of the net migration figures.

The legacy of their talk about controls is the net migration figures which we have seen going through the roof.

The overall increase of 58,000 in the net migration figure will come as a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May's aim of cutting it to the «tens of thousands» by the time of the next election in May 2015.