To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the proportion of (a) inward migration and (b) employment-related inward migration which would have been covered by the points-based system in the most recent year for which figures are available. (177461)

Persons from outside the European economic area wishing to come to the UK to work or study and their dependants will need to apply under the points-based system once it is introduced.