How many foreign-born workers are there in the UK and what do they do?
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Amber Rudd last year laid out a three-stage plan to slash the numbers of immigrants coming into Britain.
In her first speech to the Conservative Party conference as Home Secretary, she laid out plans to cut migration into the UK and said ministers will launch a consultation on whether businesses and universities should face stringent new tests before they are allowed to recruit workers and students from overseas.
She said a “tick-box culture” has allowed some firms to get away with not training local people and that ministers will consider if new tests to “ensure people coming here are filling gaps in the labour market, not taking jobs British people could do” should be imposed.
And British universities that are not from the top tier may have to do more to justify why they are offering a place to a foreigner, reported the Press Association.
SOURCES:
- Overall foreign-born worker numbers: The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford (2014)
- Construction: The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford (2015)
- Care home workers: Independent Age and the International Longevity Centre-UK (2015)
- Building and landscape services: The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford (2014)
- London foreign-born workers: The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford (2016)
- Fruit pickers: BBC (2016)
- Students: UKCISA (2014-15)
- Academics: PA (2016)
- Hospitality: The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford (2014)
- Football: BBC (2016)
- NHS: FullFact (2014)