{"id":1768,"date":"2020-02-19T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2020-02-19T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:59:08","slug":"uk-immigration-plans-devastating-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/uk-immigration-plans-devastating-for-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;UK immigration plans devastating for Scotland&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Feb 19th 2020 &#8211; Migration Minister Ben Macpherson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK Government\u2019s immigration proposals are an insult to Scotland &#8211; they completely disregard the needs of our employers, our public services and our communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a clear need for a fundamentally different approach to migration policy to reflect Scotland\u2019s distinct demographic and geographical needs. The UK Government promised a system that would deliver for all of the UK including Scotland yet these proposals do not reflect the clear evidence from employers, local authorities, universities and experts about their needs. Indeed there is not a single reference to Scotland in the document.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelling employers that they will just need to adjust will be deeply concerning to our agriculture sector; to our care sector; and to our transport sector. We need an evidence based approach to immigration policy which reflects the needs of our economy and has been developed through engagement with employers and communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scottish Government put forward a clear, workable proposal of devolving immigration powers by introducing a Scottish Visa, which would allow Scotland to attract and retain people with the skills and attributes we need for our communities and economy to flourish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur proposals have widespread support across the business and third sector communities in Scotland, and it is time the UK Government listened to those voices, instead of ploughing ahead with their deeply damaging proposals which will devastate the Scottish economy and our future prosperity.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nARTICLE SOURCE: Scot Gov Website<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/response-to-uk-goverments-immigration-proposals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/response-to-uk-goverments-immigration-proposals\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- responsive1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-slot=\"3379014842\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8934562929349122\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/rcm-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=2&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=consumerelectronics&amp;banner=154BTPQKM87HBT4TD802&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=ece1292d2f2af0e9aeb05eb97a27f55d&amp;t=imadscotlandg-21&amp;tracking_id=imadscotlandg-21\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;UK immigration plans devastating for Scotland&#39;<\/p>\n<p>&#39;A cross-party report has previously found Scotland faced demographic divergence with the rest of the UK &#8211; and that this will mean we have less money to spend on public services&#39;.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jmNETpBNAM\">https:\/\/t.co\/jmNETpBNAM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ScottishPoliticsNews  (@ScoPoliticsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScoPoliticsNews\/status\/1230118624049926145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 19th 2020 &#8211; Migration Minister Ben Macpherson said: \u201cThe UK Government\u2019s immigration proposals are an insult to Scotland &#8211; they completely disregard the needs of our employers, our public services and our communities. \u201cThere is a clear need for a fundamentally different approach to migration policy to reflect Scotland\u2019s distinct demographic and geographical needs. The UK Government promised a system that would deliver for all of the UK including Scotland yet these proposals do not reflect the clear evidence from employers, local authorities, universities and experts about their needs.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}