Migration Advisory Committee minutes, 11 September 2020
Published 28 July 2021
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131st meeting of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)
Friday 11th September 2020 10am to 12:30pm
Video / Telephone Conference
Attending:
- Professor Brian Bell
- Dr Jennifer Smith
- Professor Jo Swaffield
- Professor Jackline Wahba
- Oliver Carlisle
- MAC Secretariat
Agenda item 1 – Welcome
1. Brian Bell opened the meeting, welcoming a new member of staff to the secretariat.
Agenda item 2 – Home Office, MAC secretariat and MAC updates
2. Oliver Carlisle provided an update on Home Office business. Changes to the student route were laid before Parliament yesterday and are due to come into effect in October and the Immigration Bill is in the House of Lords this week.
3. Toby Nutley provided an update on secretariat business. The MAC are expecting another commission in the next few weeks. Interviews for new committee members have now been completed, and members will be appointed in the next few months subject to Home Office recruitment procedures. New members of the secretariat will be joining in the next few weeks. We are still awaiting further ASHE data.
4. Brian Bell gave an update on a meeting/call he had with the Minister for the Economy for Northern Ireland.
Agenda item 3 – Update on MAC stakeholder forum
5. The secretariat provided an update on the stakeholder forum which was held on 4th September. A wide range of organisations representing most sectors of the economy attended. Stakeholders were informed about what to expect from the MAC’s annual report and the forum discussed what we were told by stakeholders from our call for evidence.
Agenda item 4 – Report launch plans
6. The secretariat will be having a meeting with press office colleagues to discuss the press office meeting/launch of the SOL report which will take place on Tuesday 29th September. The secretariat discussed the options around holding a face-to-face or virtual conference.
Agenda item 5 – SOL report final decisions
7. The committee members and secretariat discussed final decisions about occupational chapters within the SOL report.
Agenda item 6 – SOL report agreeing recommendations and residual sections
8. The committee members and secretariat discussed residual chapters and recommendations for those chapters.
Agenda item 7 – AOB
9. No other business was raised.