Shortage occupation list 2020: call for evidence - our response

Our response to the UK Migration Advisory Committee call for evidence on the shortage occupation list.


Revisions List

This document was first published in August. Following review, a number of corrections and revisions were made and published in October. These are detailed below:

Location

Article

Amendment

Pg 20

Para 68

The reported proportion of all EU nationals in employment within the distribution, hotel and restaurant sector was amended from "19.%" to "19.6%"

Pg 27

Para 104

The reference to Figure 4 in the text was changed from "the below table" to "the figure below"

Pg 28

Para 109

The reference to Figure 6 in the text was changed from "Figure below" to "Figure 6 below"

Pg 29

Figure 7

Figure 7 on this page was a repeat of figure 6 on page 28 and has been removed

Pg 29

Para 111

The reference for figure 7 in the text was changed from "in Figure below" to "in Figure 7 below"

Pg 30

Figure 8

"Figure 8" has been relabelled as "Figure 7"

Pg 30

Para 114

Reporting of "low-skilled" EU15 median salary as £16,900, and equivalent UK level as £18,500 has been corrected to £14,100 and £18,100 respectively

Pg 30

Para 115

At the end of the paragraph "as demonstrated in Figure 8" was added to the text

Pg 31

Para 116

Reference to "Figure 8" was corrected to reference "Figure 9"

Pg 31

Figure 9

"Figure 9" has been relabelled as "Figure 8"

Pg 32

Figure 10

"Figure 10" has been relabelled as "Figure 9"

Pg 33

Para 122

Reference to Figure 9 has been changed from "in Figure, " to "in Figure 9,"

Pg 35

Para 126

the first sentence describing Table 2 has been changed from "The occupations are arranged in order of decreasing eligibility for potential migrants." to "The occupations are arranged in order of decreasing eligibility for potential migrants, with associated figures describing the proportion of jobs that fall below the proposed thresholds."

Pg 36

Para 128

In the first sentence, "in the evidence provided below" was removed

Pg 36

Para 129

The first sentence "The sectors highlighted below are tourism; cultural and creative industries and digital and technology" was removed

Pg 36

Figure 11

"Figure 11" was relabelled as "Figure 10"

Pg 37

Figure 3

Figure 3 on this page was removed

Pg 42

Para 147

At the beginning of the second sentence, "As shown in Table 5 below, " was added

Pg 42

Untitled Table

The untitled table on page 42 was titled "Table 5: Summary of NHS Scotland Pay Scales 2020/21"

Pg 43

Para 149

At the end of the first sentence, "(shown in Table 6 below)" was added

Pg 43

Untitled Table

The untitled table on page 43 was titled "Table 6: Medium skilled health occupations in shortage"

Pg 44

Untitled Table

The untitled table on page 44 was titled "Table 7: Median vacancy rate for all AHPs: 4.9%; median 3 month vacancy rate for all AHPs 1.5%"

Pg 69

Untitled Table

The untitled table was titled "Table 8: Summary of performers nationalities employed by four of Scotland's National Performing Companies"

Pg 74

Para 340

In the first sentence, the reference to "Table 5" was changed to "Table 9"

Pg 74

Table 5

Title of "Table 5..." was changed to "Table 9..."

Pg 74

Para 342

The final sentence from paragraph 342 was removed

Pg 77

Para 362

In the final sentence, "the matrix" was changed "Table 10"

Pg 78

Table 6

The title of "Table 6 - …" was changed to "Table 10: …"

Pg 91

Table 7

The title of "Table 7…" was changed to "Table 11…"

Pg 93

Para 456

In the first sentence "Table 1 shows that" was removed

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