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Written Question
Migration: EU Countries
Tuesday 29th March 2016

Asked by: William Cash (Conservative - Stone)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide an estimate of (a) the total level of immigration from other EU member states and (b) the annual number of people coming to settle in the UK from other EU member states which would trigger the activation of the proposed alert and safeguard emergency brake mechanism; and what discussions he has had with his counterparts in other EU member states and the European Commission on the appropriate thresholds for the emergency brake mechanism to be activated.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

Alongside the conclusions of the February European Council, the European Commission made a separate Declaration on the emergency brake (the ‘Commission Declaration on the Safeguard Mechanism’). This Declaration set out the Commission’s view that the exceptional situation that the brake is intended to cover exists in the UK today.

Additional details are a matter for the implementation of the proposal, and further announcements will be made in due course.

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