Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Kirstene Hair Excerpts
Monday 16th July 2018

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Nokes Portrait Caroline Nokes
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We constantly keep the shortage occupation list under review and work closely with the Migration Advisory Committee to ensure that the appropriate occupations are indeed on that list.

Kirstene Hair Portrait Kirstene Hair (Angus) (Con)
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My constituency grows more than 30% of Scotland’s soft fruit. Will the Home Secretary meet me so that I can discuss the issues that my local farmers are facing, and we can arrive at solutions sooner rather than later?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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My hon. Friend has raised an important issue—the need to ensure that we have seasonal agricultural labour—and I should be happy to meet her and other colleagues to discuss it further.