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	date	26/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effects on the health and social care sector in Scotland of the Government's proposed implementation of a points-based immigration system.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	21337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government published “The UK’s Points-Based System: Policy Statement” on 19 February.</p><p>The new system will ensure we can attract the brightest and best and deliver for the whole of the UK, whilst protecting our union.</p><p>To facilitate the migration of skilled workers to support the NHS, we will create a fast-track NHS visa for certain medical professionals with NHS job offers – reducing their visa fees and providing support to come to the UK with their families.Senior care workers who meet the criteria will be able to come to the UK through the points-based system.</p><p>The independent Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) has been clear immigration is not the solution to addressing staffing levels in the social care sector.</p><p>In delivering on its manifesto commitments for a new Australian style points-based system, the Government has considered relevant views, evidence, and analysis. We will also keep labour market data under careful scrutiny.</p><p>The Home Office will publish further detail on the points-based system in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/04/2020 16:11:52 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

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	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment he has made of the effect on Scotland of required income levels for skilled migrants.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	911216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Our future immigration system is designed to drive up wages and productivity across the UK and allow us to bring in the most talented while responding to public concerns about immigration.</p><p>We have been very clear that no decision on the levels at which salary thresholds should be set will be taken until we have completed the UK-wide engagement process that is currently underway.</p> answering member constituency Bromsgrove answering member printed Sajid Javid question first answered 10/06/2019 15:56:21 answering member 3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr