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'Capping Immigration to the UK: Where Next?' IPPR Report

Summary: The government has announced plans to cap immigration to the UK. This Institute for Public Policy Research report looks at the proposals and options for capping and reforming the routes which govern immigration for work from outside the EU.

The government’s headline objective on immigration is to reduce net immigration ’from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands’. Estimated net immigration to the UK (the surplus of people immigrating over people emigrating) in the year to December 2009 was 196,000. This means that even the most minimal interpretation of the government’s objective would require net immigration to the UK to be halved.

This briefing focuses on the proposals and options for capping and reforming the routes which govern immigration for work from outside the EU. Since all routes for low-skilled immigration for work are currently closed, this means Tiers 1 and 2 of the points-based system (PBS), which govern skilled immigration for work.

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