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Caitlin Doherty

Net migration ‘could be down to around 300,000 in next few years’

Professor Brian Bell (UK Government) - (PA Media)

Net migration could be down to around 300,000 “in the next two to three years”, according to the head of the independent body advising Government on migration.

Professor Brian Bell, chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), has said that he thinks numbers will “come down quite rapidly”, and could settle at the few hundred thousand mark as an average for “the next 10-20 years”.

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