Mr. Davies, that argument is an argument for maintaining or increasing levels. First of all, I have no confidence in those projections. Mr. Grubel hit the nail on the head: there is no credible, comprehensive process in place to determine what our labour force needs in the long term, what we need in this country in terms of immigration. It could be 100,000, it could be 500,000 a year, it could be a million a year. There's no way, no process in place, to assess those numbers. So I don't have a lot of confidence in those things. But even if I did, that's an argument against allowing parents and grandparents to come in automatically by virtue of the fact that their children have qualified to come in.
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