Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to continue with the immigration reforms introduced by the Home Secretary as part of the Plan for Change.

The Home Office’s Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May, set out proposed reforms to restore order, control and fairness to the legal migration system, reduce net migration, and promote economic growth.

On 1 July changes to the Immigration Rules were set out to deliver the first set of reforms:

• raising the skilled worker visa threshold back to degree level – when it comes to immigration, skilled must mean skilled.
• introducing a time-limited, interim Temporary Shortage List - unlike its predecessors, it is a genuinely temporary list, providing time-limited access to the immigration system where it’s proven that it’s needed.
• closing the social care worker visa route to overseas recruitment – putting further protections in place for individuals exploited by the route.

Work is underway to deliver the wider measures announced in the White Paper with further updates to follow in due course. We will set out further measures around asylum and border security later this year.