![]() Mr Jenrick added there are "reasons to believe" that those arriving for humanitarian reasons from Ukraine and Hong Kong "will reduce over the course of this year – although it is difficult to predict". "Which suggests that numbers are now flatlining." Immigration minister Robert Jenrick told the Commons in the last hour that "since then, they have seen no evidence that it has increased". In the new data released by the Office for National Statistics, statisticians revealed they had changed their methodology when it comes to calculating net migration in the UK.īecause of this, the ONS has increased the estimate it made in June 2022 from 504,000 to 606,000. "If there are more changes we need to make, we will make them." He also accepted there are great pressures on public services due to migration. Mr Jenrick said there needs to be a "proper join up between the numbers coming in and how we accommodate them". He said the net migration number equates to eight new parliamentary constituencies – and asks what the "short term" plan is. Later, Martin Vickers noted that "anger and frustration" on migration is growing in his constituency of Cleethorpes. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said this is an "important point". "Why is it that under the points based system we let people in earning £26,000 a year – but the median UK salary is £33,000?" But this is bad for productivity and bad for British people who are being undercut by mass migration from all over the world. He said: "Some people in the Treasury seem to think that a good way to grow the economy is to fill the country up with more and more people. Sir Edward Leigh stressed that an "obvious solution" would be to ensure everyone who arrives in the UK is "skilled" - and earns at least the median UK salary of £33,000. Back to the Urgent Question, where a handful of Conservative MPs are making no secret of their frustration at the latest net migration stats.
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