UK-EU migration for work: Lords to consider the impact of the Immigration White Paper

During the session, the Committee will ask what staffing and recruitment pressures their sectors are already facing due to the continued uncertainty around Brexit, as well for their views on the Government's immigration White Paper.

The evidence session will begin at 11:30am in Committee Room 4A of the House of Lords

• Kate Nicholls, Chief Executive, UK Hospitality
• Fionnuala Horrocks-Burns, Employment and Skills Policy Adviser, British Retail Consortium
• Sara Gorton, Co-Chair, Cavendish Coalition
• Rachel Beddow, Brexit Programme Lead, Citizens Advice

Topics the Committee are likely to cover with the organisations include:

• Concerns about the confusion and additional bureaucracy resulting from proposed changes to the UK immigration system, and whether the Home Office has the capacity to deal with this
• The opportunities reform of the UK immigration system may provide and if it could potentially simplify immigration rules and processes
• Views on the Government's plan to open the Tier 2 (General) visa to medium-skilled workers, and on the review of the Tier 2 salary threshold
• View on the European Temporary Leave to Remain policy
• Whether the proposed future immigration rules prevent EU nationals seeking to build careers in the UK after Brexit

The Committee have also written a letter to Rt Hon Caroline Nokes MP following her appearance before the Committee when she was questioned on the future EU migration to the UK for work and future UK-EU asylum cooperation. The Committee have sought further clarity on:

• the temporary short-term worker route;
• lowering the Tier 2 skilled threshold to medium-skilled workers;
• implementation of the new immigration system
• European temporary leave to remain
• EU settlement scheme as it relates to independent adult children

Read the full letter here (pdf 97KB).