Home Secretarys Announcement
29th February 2012
Commenting on the Home Secretarys announcement that migrant workers will need to earn 35,000 to qualify for permanent settlement, Frank Field and Nicholas Soames said:
"This is absolutely the right way to go. Companies must have the staff they need for growth and net migration must be brought down from its present absurdly high level. This is a useful step forward but there remains a great deal to do."
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Between 1997 and 2010 just over 3 million migrants came to the UK while one million British citizens emigrated.
According to official projections, immigration at current levels will add about 7 million to the population of England by 2027 - equivalent to 7 cities the size of Birmingham. Just over two thirds of this increase will be due to immigration.
According to the government's household projections, a new home for immigrants will need to be built every seven minutes for the next 20 years or so.
Since 2000 only 20% of net migration has come from the European Union - the rest has originated from countries outside the EU.
Home Secretarys Announcement
29-Feb-2012
Commenting on the Home Secretarys announcement that migrant workers will need to earn 35,000 to qualify for permanent settlement, Frank Field and Nicholas Soames said: "This is absolutely the right way to go. Companies must have the staff they need for growth and net migration must be brought down from its present absurdly high level. This is a useful step forward but there remains a great deal to do."
Two thirds of births in London are to a foreign born parent
21-Feb-2012
Today it was revealed, in response to a parliamentary question from the Rt. Hon. Nicholas Soames MP, Co-Chairman of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration, that in 2010 two thirds of all births in London are to parents where one or both are foreign born. This rises to 84% in Newham and 81% in Westminster. The figure is below 50% in only six of the 32 London boroughs.
Response to the speech given by the Immigration Minister on the 2nd February
02-Feb-2012
In response to the speech given by Damian Green MP at Policy Exchange today, Frank Field and Nicholas Soames said: "This proposal to break the almost automatic link between coming here to work and getting settlement has to be the right way to go.
Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration response to Prime Ministers speech
14-Apr-2011
This is a major speech that marks the key change in the debate on immigration in the direction that the Cross Party Group campaigns for
House of Commons Debate Immigration
18-Nov-2010
The 18th November 2010 represented an important day in the House of Commons: it was the first time in a generation that Immigration was debated on the floor of the House.
MPs CALL FOR TOUGHER CONTROLS ON WORK PERMITS
03-Nov-2010
Frank Field and Nicholas Soames have written to the Home Secretary calling for the suspension of arrangements that allow foreign graduates of British institutions to stay on for two years looking for work in competition with British graduates.
