Lower migration while selecting for higher skills and strategic shortages

Raise skill requirements, link migration access with domestic training and retain routes for high-skilled workers and critical shortages.

Reconstruction: reduce legal migration by raising skill and salary requirements, linking immigration to workforce planning and domestic training, and limiting lower-skilled access to time-limited critical-occupation routes. Retain high-skilled and strategic-shortage routes.

Caveat: the published programme does not supply one numerical five-year target.

Source: Home Office — Restoring control over the immigration system · Open reference