00:00I think there's a particular issue about confidence in the immigration system and really
00:03frankly quite understandably because the way in which those numbers shot up in such a short period
00:09of time, I mean I've described this as I think this really was a sort of free market experiment
00:16in which effectively employers were encouraged to recruit from abroad including being given a
00:2120% discount on the wages that they were able to pay for people who they recruited from abroad
00:26below the going rate which makes no sense at all because that applied to shortage occupations
00:32where it may well have been that in those shortage occupations part of the answer
00:36to preventing them being shortage occupations would be to actually pay people properly and
00:40to increase pay rather than to have a 20% discount.
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