AQW 21968/17-22 Written question to the First Minister and deputy First Minister
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister what assessment their Department has made of the Immigration Act 2020’s impact on Northern Ireland’s labour market.
Asked by John Blair MLA on 7 September 2021
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 7 September 2021
- Answer due by
- 22 September 2021
- Answered
- 21 September 202114 days after tabling
- Department
- The Executive Office
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Analysis and research related to the impacts of the UK Government’s Immigration policy on the Northern Ireland labour market is available on My Department’s website.
My Department also commissioned an independent report from Oxford Economics which examined ‘The Impact of Changes to the UK Immigration Policy on the Northern Ireland Economy’. The report highlighted that the main economic impact is that employers will be unable to replace EU migrant workers who leave Northern Ireland to work elsewhere.
https://www.economy-ni.gov.uk/articles/eu-exit-analysis
https://www.economy-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/economy/Impact-changes-migration-policy-ni-economy.pdf