Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the (a) potential effect on immigration levels of the Government's new immigration proposals and (b) implications of those proposals for Government policy on reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.

The Government’s Immigration White Paper, the UK’s Future Skills-Based Immigration System (Cm 9722), includes an economic appraisal of potential impacts of the proposed future immigration system.