Public Houses and Service Industries: Recruitment

Home Office written question – answered at on 19 March 2020.

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Photo of Luke Evans Luke Evans Conservative, Bosworth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the ability of (a) pubs and (b) the hospitality industry to recruit adequate numbers of workers after the introduction of the proposed points-based immigration system.

Photo of Kevin Foster Kevin Foster The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

Now we have left the EU, Free movement is ending and we will not simply replicate it in a future system.

Skilled hospitality workers who meet the relevant criteria will be able to come to the UK through the points-based immigration system.

We need to shift the focus of our economy away from a reliance on cheap labour from Europe and consider immigration alongside investment in technology, innovation, automation and development of the UK’s domestic labour force.

Employers need to adjust and adapt and make jobs more attractive for resident workers.

Business can continue to rely on those EU/EEA nationals, and their family members, living in the UK with settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, and on those who come to the UK through other rates such as our youth mobility schemes.

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