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Regarding ILR, I stand by EVERYTHING I said. You don't need statistics to prove how many people leave the care sector or claim benefits once granted permanent residency….the point was, we shouldn’t even be given 1.9 million people who came here on 5 year working visas the OPTION. The country shouldn’t even take the risk if even 2% apply for benefits or leave the care sector. Just because someone took the opportunity to work here, why must Britain grant them all settled status or citizenship? The sense of entitlement is astounding. They may have been promised it before, but things change based on the economy etc Prevention is better than cure. We should not give hundreds of thousands of individuals the option to leave the very roles we desperately brought them in for, such as care work, nor provide access to welfare and social housing when public resources are already overstretched until the country is in a better position to accommodate that. People may pretend not to understand because they are driven by emotion, but opening up welfare access to nearly two million low wage workers will inevitably lead to a portion of them claiming benefits or requesting social housing. Why wouldn’t they? If people have been living in overcrowded conditions, with two or three families sharing a single property and are suddenly eligible for the housing element of Universal Credit to move into their own family home, of course they will take it. Britain simply cannot afford to take that risk right now. It is that straightforward.