News and communications

Letters between the chair of the MAC and the chair of the EFRA select committee in response to the EFRA report: Labour Shortages in the Food and Farming Sector.

• Updated: 27 June 2022

• Letter to the EFRA committee from the MAC, 16 May 2022 (accessible)

  Migration Advisory Committee 2nd Floor Peel Building NE 2 Marsham Street…

• Letter from the EFRA committee to the MAC, 5 April 2022 (accessible)

  From the Chair of the Committee Environment, Food and Rural Affairs…

The Home Secretary has set out a bespoke humanitarian support package for Ukrainians in a speech to Parliament

• Updated: 1 March 2022

Professor Jo Swaffield has been reappointed as a member of the MAC for a further 3 years from 6 February 2021.

• Updated: 26 February 2021

More than 6,000 frontline health workers will have their visas extended for a year for free, including doctors, nurses and paramedics.

• Updated: 20 November 2020

Seasonal Workers Pilot expanded to boost edible horticulture sector for the 2020 harvest

• Updated: 19 February 2020

Health and social care workers from the EU with professional qualifications can continue to practise in the UK as they do now.

• Updated: 4 April 2019

Employers will be able to rely on an online Right to Work Checking Service to demonstrate compliance with illegal working legislation.

• Updated: 14 December 2018

Scottish Secretary David Mundell welcomes proposals for a Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme

• Updated: 6 September 2018

The ‘UKRI Science, Research and Academia’ scheme allows non-EEA researchers, scientists and academics to come to the UK for up to 2 years.

• Updated: 6 July 2018

The MAC will attend regional events around the UK to meet and take evidence from stakeholders on EEA and international migrant workers.

• Updated: 14 September 2017