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Something has been made today of pull factors. I echo noble Lords who have stressed that those factors are not actually as strong as people suggest. It is dangerous when we receive a truth as though that is the end of the conversation, without looking at the context within which that received truth is being grappled. Many other factors determine where people settle in the world. The working conditions and legislative framework that we are talking about are not what people pore over before they look at language ties, family ties and diaspora connections in the area.