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Migration Advisory Committee reports and publications


This page allows you to access all reports and publications produced by the Migration Advisory Committee.

The initial task for the Migration Advisory Committee was to produce shortage occupation lists for the United Kingdom, and Scotland, for use alongside the launch of tier 2 of the new points-based system for migration. These lists comprise skilled occupations where, in the committee's view, there are shortages that can sensibly be filled by enabling employers to recruit migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA). A report by the committee on its consideration of these lists was published on 9 September 2008.

In the lead up to publication the committee published an interim report outlining its intended approach to determining which occupations should be on the list. At the same time the committee issued, through the report, a call for evidence in order to seek views on the proposed methodology and to invite evidence to be submitted on occupations that stakeholders believe should be included on the list.

The call for evidence is now closed. However, the committee is committed to providing evidence-based advice to government on an ongoing basis. Evidence submitted by stakeholders is an important element of the evidence base on which the committee is working. We therefore encourage stakeholders to contact us to submit evidence when it is believed that an occupation should be added to the shortage occupation list.

The committee will review the shortage occupation list on a regular basis.

To see the report and all the associated documents you should see the Migration Advisory Committee's first recommended shortage occupation lists page.

Last Updated: 08 April 2009

Index

  1. Identifying occupations where migration can sensibly help to fill skilled labour shortages
    1. Preliminary comments on data and methodology - January 2008 (142K opens in a new window)
    2. Methods of investigation and next steps for the committee's first shortage occupation list - February 2008 (461K opens in a new window)
    3. Migration Advisory Committee - call for evidence proforma for responses (34K opens in a new window)
    4. Migration Advisory Committee - call for evidence proforma for responses (82K opens in a new window)
  2. Updates
    1. Migration Advisory Committee update, January 2008 (63K opens in a new window)
    2. Migration Advisory Committee update, December 2007 (91K opens in a new window)
  3. Migration advisory committee report - December 2008
    1. The labour market impact of relaxing restrictions on employment in the UK of nationals of Bulgarian and Romanian EU member states (891K opens in a new window)
  4. Migration advisory committee report - April 2009
    1. Review of the UK's transitional measures for nationals of member states that acceded to the European Union in 2004 (291K opens in a new window)