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Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 July 2025

Debate

Illegal Migration: Pull Factors

Contribution

My Lords, could my noble friend the Minister indicate whether the Government considered working in the social care sector as one of the pull factors for illegal migrants entering the UK when they decided in their White Paper to remove the social care sector from the list of occupations that can recruit migrant workers? Did they take into consideration the need for adequate staffing in the sector and the reported high number of vacancies?

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