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Immigration: Business

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 13 June 2025UIN 57463

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Restoring control over the immigration system white paper, published on 13 May 2025, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of doubling the number of workers that an overseas business can send to the UK with the aim of establishing a presence in the UK on levels of immigration.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

The Immigration White paper, published 12 May, set out proposed reforms in a number of areas.

Over recent years, proper control and management of the immigration system has been lost. Levels of net migration have risen to a record high of 906,000 in the year ending June 2023 - a four-fold increase in the space of under four years.

Further details will be set out in due course.

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