UK Cap on Immigration from Non-EU Countries

UK's new Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government today delivered on a pre-election promise to put a cap on the immigration of workforce from non-European countries. British Home Secretary Theresa May today announced an annual cap on immigration from non-UK countries into the UK that will be limited to 24,100 or five per cent less than last year.

28 June 2010


British Home Secretary Theresa May announced an annual cap on immigration from non-UK countries into the UK

The number of workers entering the UK from outside Europe would be controlled by this new limit, Theresa May announced today. Net migration will be scaled back to the levels of the 1990s - to tens of thousands rather than hundreds of thousands. Introducing a limit on migrants from outside Europe coming here to work was just one of the ways the government intended to achieve this, a Home office release said.

This is only a temporary policy. Permanent limits on non-EU economic migration routes will then be decided and put in place by April 1, 2011.

Prime Minister David Cameron took a tough line on immigration during his election campaign last month, promising reductions.

Home Secretary Theresa May said net immigration had been too high under the previous Labour government, and that if left uncontrolled, immigration "was not a good thing" due to the pressure it placed on public services. "What we have as an aim is indeed to bring immigration down from the hundreds of thousands that it became under Labour to the tens of thousands that it used to be. There are various ways in which we can do that," she told BBC Radio. "This government believes that Britain can benefit from migration but not uncontrolled migration," she said.

May added that the interim limit was necessary to avoid a rush of immigrants ahead of the permanent cap next year. She said that recent figures showed that migration from EU countries to the UK accounted for around 33 percent of the total, with the rest consisting of non-EU and non-British peoples.

Net migration to the UK was 142,000 from January to September last year, down from 160,000 in the previous 12-month period.

 

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nice work there trying to make out we have "issues" with aussies

were a small island nation, we cant keep up with uncontroled immigration and due to EU rules that anyone from within the european union can move around for work our only choice is to limit those coming from outside the EU.

not a new concept thou is it since america, canada, australia limit migrants to those with skills they need

now if we stop the policy of allowing EU migrants to apply for benifits after living here a year then many wouldnt bother coming in the first place so EU immigration from some countrys would be lower

 

lmao...yes that was priceless...!!!