Written Question·Home Office·UIN 66172

Immigration Controls

Tabled: 9 July 2025
Answered: 17 July 2025

Question

Wendy Morton

Conservative — Aldridge-Brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory cap on levels of migration.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The Home Office’s Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May 2025, sets out proposals for reform in a wide range of areas across the immigration and asylum system, including a cap on the amount of lower skilled migration into the UK.