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805419

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date	12/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a maximum time limit of eight days for the registration of deaths in England.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	119090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Section 16(3) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 requires deaths to be registered by a qualified informant within five days for England and Wales. There are no current plans to amend this legislation.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 19/12/2017 15:04:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

802744

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date	07/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Skilled Workers: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing regional variations in the salary thresholds for tier two visas for skilled non-EU migrants.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	118293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to developing an immigration system that serves the national interest and are clear that applying different immigration rules to different parts of the UK would complicate the immigration system, harm its integrity, and cause difficulties for employers who need the flexibility to deploy their staff to other parts of the UK.</p><p>The Government commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to undertake a comprehensive review of the Tier 2 route in June 2015.</p><p>The MAC concluded and has repeatedly recommended that we should not operate different salary thresholds for different regions and countries in the UK. More information about the MAC and its report on Tier 2 can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-mac-review-tier-2-migration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-mac-review-tier-2-migration</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/12/2017 17:49:27 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen