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HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 16, in clause 4, page 3, line 28, at end insert— “(11) Subject to subsection (13), regulations made under subsection (1) must make provision for ensuring…11 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Yes. Lucy Leon: We have worked with children and families with no recourse to public funds for well over 10 years. We have a lot of experience through our services, and recently…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)Q Alison Harvey, may I first go back to the idea that Professor Ryan was speaking about earlier: the notion of persons of Northern Ireland? The reason that would be useful would…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q Mr McTague, what is the experience of your members with the shortage occupation list?09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q May I go first to the London Chamber of Commerce and then to the FSB? You have both spoken eloquently about the new challenges and red tape that the system will impose upon…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q It was a question about whether or not there is a danger that introducing this system for EU nationals will make the United Kingdom much less attractive as a place for them to…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q My other question relates to the proposals that we were debating this time last year, when the same Bill was going through Parliament, and there was a proposal for a 12-month…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Mr McTague. Sometimes the shortage occupation list is said to be an answer to some of the issues that you have flagged up this morning. At other times, we hear…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)What improvements would you want to make to the procedure? Martin McTague: I would like to see a much more active engagement with business representative organisations so that, if…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q Since we have a little time left, to what extent does the shortage occupation list offer a partial solution to some of the challenges you face? We sometimes hear criticism that…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)And, quickly—09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q One final question, if I may, Mr Stringer. It is a broader question about the nature of this Bill, since, obviously, this morning we are going into the fine detail of a future…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q How would you try to improve it? Martin McTague: Sorry, I could not quite hear that.09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q My final question to you, Mr McTague, is a broader question about the Bill. We have spoken a lot about the future immigration system that has been proposed by the Government,…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q I will try again, Mr McTague. It is a broad question about how we make immigration policy. This Bill essentially gives the Home Secretary the power to put in place a system with…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q Is there no way you can have flexibility but with parliamentary oversight? Martin McTague: Sorry, can you say that again.09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Flexibility does not mean that you cannot have parliamentary oversight, does it? Martin McTague: No, it is not that. I think the Home Secretary will be answerable to Parliament…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q Yet, ironically enough, you have spent most of your evidence saying that the Home Secretary was not responding to what business was saying at all. Martin McTague: I’m sorry, I…09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)I will stop digging there. Martin McTague: I apologise.09 Jun 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (First sitting)Q Last year, when you gave evidence to the Bill Committee, you described tier 2 as a “restrictive, complex and burdensome system.” –– [ Official Report, Immigration and Social…09 Jun 2020