Question follow-through · 16705
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce a cap on annual net migration.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 5 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Immigration: Statistics · 29 Nov 2024
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- Asylum: Age · 2 Dec 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce a cap on annual net migration.
2 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Prime Minister has made clear the Government will not be introducing a cap on migration. Instead, the Government wants to see immigration come down significantly and we will take an evidence-based approach, linking migration policy to skills policy so...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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