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HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q Are you saying it is more about enforcement than regulation? Are there flaws in the regulation that you are concerned about, or is it really about capacity around enforcement?…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q Are there good practices—you pointed to one or two things—in a seasonal workers’ scheme that you would have confidence in if it were replicated in the UK? Meri Åhlberg: I…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q The involvement of the trade union sounds very important in that. Meri Åhlberg: I would say so, yes.12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q We heard the argument this morning from the Migration Advisory Committee, which was supported to some extent by Migration Watch UK, that the threshold approach would encourage…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q What do you think about the argument that salary thresholds are a decent proxy for skill? Matthew Fell: If the intention is to use a salary threshold, I think it is part of the…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q Finally, what are your members’ biggest worries at the moment in relation to this? Matthew Fell: The single biggest area is time to adapt. It is not knowing exactly what new…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q One of the arguments Migration Watch came up with was the idea, for a middle-area skill, to have a sliding scale: a three-year visa and then a sliding scale where the salary…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q What other matrix would you suggest? Matthew Fell: As I have just said, we think there is something quite interesting to look at in a simple and quick local labour market test.12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q What my hon. Friend the Member for Torfaen said about Wales could well be said about the Lincolnshire area I am in, where average salaries are not at £30,000. You are setting a…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q A little bit above. Professor Manning: There is a debate. When I say “a bit above”, I accept that there is a contentious issue about how much above. Some people are saying, “The…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q Going back to care, for example, a little bit above would not get you to £30,000, would it? Professor Manning: I go back to what I said earlier. When people say, “We have to…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q That is to do with shortages rather than skills, is it not? Matthew Fell: Yes, but you would have a look at that, then skill levels alongside salary. Salary as a proxy in its…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q That is partly because, at the other end, Government are not putting enough money into the system. There is a bit of a dilemma there, isn’t there? Professor Manning: We accept…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q I think you were saying earlier that this legislation as it stands, along with the White Paper, is likely to lead to an increase in inward migration. Is that right? That was my…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q Given that we are setting a future direction now, what would you like to see in this legislation to make that less likely to happen? Lord Green: First, it is quite difficult to…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q That was very much the argument that we were being given—that if you have a higher threshold, employers will be obliged to pay more for those scarce skills. Matthew Fell: We…12 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q So that is how you would tackle the issue of butchery, for example, which I raised earlier? Lord Green: I am not an expert on butchery, and there will be special cases of…12 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightMy hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) asked the Secretary of State whether, at the point of signing off the contract, he knew that Seaborne Freight…11 Feb 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseWhen we finish early, as we did yesterday, it raises the question of whether the Government are using the time available effectively. Can we have a statement on how the cancelling…07 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Mobile Roaming ChargesThe Secretary of State just said that we are no longer beneficiaries of EU regulation. It was not until the EU acted that the mobile companies got rid of the dreaded mobile…07 Feb 2019