Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of raising the minimum salary threshold on levels of immigration.
The Shortage Occupation List (SOL) is reviewed regularly by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC,) through extensive consultation with economic sectors. The SOL was updated in August this year with a wider MAC SOL review published in October. The Government is currently considering its response.
More broadly, the Government is considering additional measures to address net migration and will announce details of these in due course.