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Tories mocked for deciding to ask experts about EU migration? a year after the referendum
27 July 2017
The Migration Advisory Committee will embark on a major study into the role of 3.2million EU nationals in Britain's economy and society. Its "extremely important" work will look at patterns of migration from Europe, regional distribution, skill levels and seasonal workers. But it will only report back in September 2018 - just six months before the deadline for Brexit on 29 March 2019. And its chairman played down Tory claims it would produce interim reports in the meantime. Professor Alan Manning said only that his committee will "consider the possibility" of doing so.