Peter Bone – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Peter Bone on 2016-01-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.

James Brokenshire

Uncontrolled mass immigration increases pressure on public services and can drive down wages. That is why our ambition remains to cut net migration to sustainable levels. We continue to work across government to reduce net migration outside of the EU and seek reform in Europe to reduce the pull factors behind EU migration. Building on the measures in the Immigration Act 2014, our new Immigration Bill will address illegal working, the availability of public services which help migrants remain here unlawfully and will extend our ‘deport first appeal later’ approach to ensure that even more illegal migrants are removed from the UK.