Student Visas

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:37 pm on 24 May 2023.

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Photo of Edward Leigh Edward Leigh Conservative, Gainsborough 12:37, 24 May 2023

This measure is wholly to be welcomed, but the fact is that legal migration is out of control and the British people did not vote for Brexit to replace mass migration from Europe with mass migration from the rest of the world. May I therefore press the Minister on the point made by my hon. Friend Kevin Foster that we will never deal with legal migration until we solve the labour problem? Home-grown employers in Britain are paying too low wages and trying to attract people from all over the world. Why do we not raise the threshold so that those who want to come here and get a job need to earn average earnings?