Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 6
6
Rejected
Promote time-limited short-term visas for seasonal or lacking sectors to aid origin country economic development.
Conclusion
We invite the Government to respond to the idea of actively promoting in those countries that have qualified unemployed workers in particular sectors time-limited or short-term visas for seasonal work, such as fruit-picking, or in sectors in which the UK lacks workers, such as construction, as a means of dispersing earned wealth to those countries to aid their long-term economic development. (Paragraph 39) Asylum and migration: Albania 21
Government Response Summary
The government refers to its response to point 5, reiterating that it is not the purpose of the UK immigration system to facilitate the international disbursement of wealth, thus rejecting the idea of promoting short-term visas for this aim.
Government Response
Rejected
HM Government
Rejected
Please see the response to point 5. It is not the purpose of the UK immigration system to facilitate the international disbursement of wealth.