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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 is to produce shortage occupation lists for the United Kingdom, and Scotland, by August 2008 for use alongside the launch of tier 2 of the new points-based system for migration. These lists will 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 will be published on 9 September 2008. It will be made available on this website.

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. You can find these documents below.

In broad terms the committee has decided to adopt an approach that brings together 'top-down' analysis of national level data and 'bottom-up' evidence from employers and employer organisations. The top-down evidence will be largely quantitative, based on analysis of national data sources. The committee welcomes quantitative evidence in particular, but will look at appropriate qualitative evidence too.

Both quantitative and qualitative evidence will need to address three key issues for an occupation to be represented on the list. These are, first of all, whether an occupation is 'skilled' at NVQ level 3 or above; second, whether there is a 'shortage' of skilled people to do the job within the United Kingdom and wider EEA; and, finally, whether it is 'sensible' for migrants to fill those occupations or job categories which are deemed to be skilled and where evidence of a shortage has been established.

The call for evidence in relation to our initial recommended shortage occupation list in August 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.

Last Updated: 29 August 2008

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)

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