Sentences with phrase «net migration policy»

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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.

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.

Following five years of policies designed to reduce immigration, quarterly statistics released at the end of August showed net migration reaching the highest level on record, taking the government ever further from its goal of reducing net flows «from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands.»

«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.

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 coalition government has put forward policies designed to reduce net migration through limitations on international students and skilled labour migrants.

Proposed policies aim to reduce net migration mainly by limiting three types of migration inflows non-EU nationals — work, study and family — and by increasing outflows by making it more difficult for non-EU nationals to gain the right to reside permanently in the UK.

«David Cameron said «no ifs, no buts» he would deliver on his target to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, yet Vince Cable said that it isn't coalition policy,» she said.

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.

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The strategic judgment must be, that while he is unlikely to hit his chosen target of reducing net migration levels to «tens of thousands» by 2015, his policies will have made enough of a dent that voters will feel that, in contrast to the other two parties, at least the Conservatives tried.

He said the «cavalier pledge» to get annual net migration below 100,000 and their fear of Ukip led the Conservatives to introduce the policy of creating a «hostile environment» for illegal immigrants.

On immigration the prime minister asserted that the government's policies were working and that illegal immigration and net inward migration was falling.

When it comes to skills and immigration, the Tories have vowed to double the immigration skills charge to # 2,000 for companies employing migrant workers, a policy that is perfectly aligned with David Cameron's previous pledge to cut net migration to tens of thousands.

If the policy is intended to have a dramatic effect on net migration, it assumes that there many migrants coming to the UK that would be persuaded not to come to the UK if it were more difficult to claim benefits.

He notes that with our net migration running at over 300,000 a year, immigration policy must be changed to alleviate this pressure on the UK.