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<p>Following the publication of the Government’s White Paper ‘The UK’s future skills-based
immigration system’ (Cm9722) on 19 December 2018, Ministers and officials are undertaking
an extensive year long engagement programme with a wide range of stakeholders across
the UK, including with the private, public and voluntary sector and local government,
as well as industry representatives and individual businesses. We have already delivered
over 100 events in every nation of the UK, reaching almost 1500 stakeholders.</p><p>As
part of our engagement, on 24 June 2019, the Government asked the Migration Advisory
Committee (MAC) to consider the issue of minimum salary thresholds in more detail.
As part of this new commission, we have asked the MAC to look at a number of issues
including the approach to calculating salary thresholds, the levels at which they
should be set, the case for greater regional variation and the impact of exemptions
from minimum salary thresholds. This report is due by January 2020.</p><p><br>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>
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