The influential Backbench Business Committee supported the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration by choosing a full day’s debate on the subject of immigration in the House of Commons yesterday.

Nicholas Soames and Frank Field Co-Chair the Group.

Motion of the Debate:

That this House calls on Her Majesty's Government to act on the overwhelming public concern about the present scale of immigration by taking firm measures to reduce immigration without excluding those individuals who are genuinely essential to economic recovery, on which so much else depends.

The full debate may be downloaded here