The case for a new Minister for Migration

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An incoming Labour Government should commit to the creation of a cross-departmental Minister for Migration to manage the UK’s immigration policy, its approach to responding to the migration crisis, and with responsibility for migration ODA spending.

The Minister for Migration would sit across both the Home Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office and be responsible for ODA spending on migration and in-country refugee costs.

Labour could also consider whether there is value in giving the Minister of Migration a third role in the Department of Levelling Up which would allow them to have direct involvement in integration efforts or within the Department for Business and Trade which would offer them the opportunity to marry up migration with labour shortages in the economy.

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