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John Lamont Excerpts

Monday 8th June 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I just want to help the hon. Member for York Outer (Mr Charters). The Minister was answering, and you walked straight across both of us—not that I should need to explain that.

[John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) (Con)]

T5.   Immigration, especiallynon-EU migration, remains too high. Many of my constituents across the Scottish Borders want to see a cap on the number of people who can come into the United Kingdom. Will the Home Secretary introduce a binding cap, set by Parliament, to bring down immigration once and for all?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mike Tapp)]

Under the previous Government, we saw 2.5 million people arrive in just four years—that is one in 30 people in the country at this time. This Government have brought migration down by 82% since its peak and by 41% in the past year.