PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Migrant Workers (20 December 2018)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the effect of low-skilled migration on the economy in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Answer
No such estimate has been made but the independent Migration Advisory Committee report ‘EEA migration in the UK: Final report’ concluded “the benefits for existing residents of high-skilled migration seem clear. The evidence is less clear on whether low-skilled migration (perhaps those in the bottom 25 per cent of the earnings distribution) has had costs or been broadly neutral”.
Answered by:
Caroline Nokes (Conservative)
14 January 2019
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