To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions her Department has held with the Home Office on the restrictions on migrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania; and if she will make a statement. (106873)

Home Office Ministers and I discussed the decision to open gradually the UK labour market to workers from Bulgaria and Romania in the Asylum and Migration Cabinet Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. The committee was supported by a ministerial working group and by official level working groups. I refer my right hon. Friend to the written ministerial statement made to the House on 24 October 2006, Official Report, columns 82-84WS, by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary on the decision to restrict access to the UK labour market for workers from Romania and Bulgaria.