Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride admited net migration figures are "too high" and "unacceptable" after new data shows net migration peaked at 745,000 in the year. The ONS said figures indicate a slowing of immigration and increasing emigration. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Well the government accepts that these figures are too high and that they definitely need
00:04 to be coming down.
00:05 Now we have seen some very recent progress in that respect.
00:09 I think the OBR is suggesting we might be moving in the right kind of direction and
00:13 that's in the back of certain recent approaches we've taken, 150,000 students and their dependents
00:19 and reducing some of the numbers there.
00:22 But look, there is more to be done and we do accept we need to get that number down.