Policy responses and statements

Name of organisation:: Home Office
Name of policy document:: A Consultation on establishing a Migration Advisory Committee
Deadline for response:: 31 January 2007

Background: The Government launched this consultation on a pioneering panel to provide advice on where limits on migration make sense for Britain on what standards migrants must reach to come here to work.

The consultation invited views on the role and functions of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) such as: providing the most up-to-date information on labour market trends, skills shortages and the wider impacts of migration helping to ensure that migration into the UK is balanced alongside the needs of both the economy and society. It will also seek views on the composition of the committee incuding business representatives, local authorities, trade union groups and community leaders.

The consultation also invited views on:

whether we need a new independent body to advise Government on migration;
if the MAC should take into account the economic, fiscal and wider impacts when giving advice on where migrants might fill gaps; and
whether the MAC should provide advice on regional as well as national skills shortages.

Download this consultation response as a .pdf

Copies of this response are available from:

Lesley Lockhart,
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,
9 Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JQ.

Tel: 0131 225 7324 ext 608
Fax: 0131 220 3939

[31 January 2007]