Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Bill Grant and Sajid Javid

Monday 10th June 2019 Commons Chamber

[Bill Grant (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (Con)]

6. What plans he has for the UK's future immigration system.

[The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sajid Javid)]

In December 2018 the Government set out their proposals for a future immigration system in a White Paper, “The UK’s future skills-based immigration system”. The new system will be focused on those with the skills that the country needs, who will bring the most benefit to the United Kingdom.

[Bill Grant]

My constituency needs migrant workers to support local industry—particularly, but not exclusively, in the health, hospitality, fishing and farming sectors. Will my right hon. Friend reassure my constituents that there will be sufficient flexibility in any post-Brexit immigration system to allow those sectors to flourish?

[Sajid Javid]

I am happy to give my hon. Friend that reassurance. We recognise that the future system must work for the valuable industries that make this nation great. We are working with many businesses and employers, including some in the sectors that my hon. Friend has listed, to ensure there is proper engagement which will achieve precisely what he has described.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Bill Grant and Sajid Javid

Monday 29th October 2018 Commons Chamber

[Bill Grant (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (Con)]

May I seek an assurance from the Minister that any revised immigration policy will reflect the needs of the farming and fishing community in Scotland and indeed the whole UK?

[Sajid Javid]

I can give my hon. Friend that assurance, and that was one reason why we recently launched a pilot for a seasonal workers agricultural scheme for 2019.