Sentences with phrase «net migration target in»
The coalition is unlikely to meet the coalition's net migration target in 2011, when the total is expected to exceed 200,000.
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Conservatives in government will fail to meet their target of cutting net migration from the hundreds to the tens of thousands by May 2015, business secretary Vince Cable has declared.
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?»
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.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has criticised David Cameron's target of cutting annual net migration to under 100,000 by the next election in 2015.
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.
Some 336,000 more people arrived in the UK than left in the last year, more than treble the Prime Minister's target of cutting net migration to under 100,000.
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.
Net UK migration increased to 212,000 in the year to September 2013, pushing it further away from the Conservatives» target of below 100,000, according to official estimates.
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.