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Asked about the new Entrepreneur visa being set up, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the aim of this would be to increase the number of entrepreneurs coming into the country. There was an existing Entrepreneur visa scheme, but that would be looked at again and there would be new criteria. The PMS said that at the moment there were very few people taking it up.

Asked what the current criteria was, the PMS advised people to speak to the Home Office on the detail.

Put that these visas would be for people who were self-employed, the PMS replied that the idea was to attract people with good ideas and serious investment behind them to the UK.

Asked what kind of numbers the Government was looking for to take the scheme, the PMS replied that we hadn’t set a target, but we obviously wanted to increase the number of people taking up the visa.

The Prime Minister would be talking about high-tech industry later today and encouraging other investors to come to the country.

Asked if there was a cap on the number of people taking up the visa, the PMS replied that more details would be released in the coming weeks.

When asked if the Prime Minister would accept that there was some confusion over the Government’s immigration policy, the PMS said that we had had a consultation period on immigration and that was now closed.

We would announce details in due course, but the Prime Minister had been very clear that he wanted Britain to be a place that attracted the brightest and the best.

Asked when the Prime Minister thought the East End of London would rival Silicon Valley, the PMS replied that the signals made today by a number of high profile companies in committing themselves to the East End were very positive.

Asked what the official line was on intra-company transfers, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had made a statement on that during PMQs, and it was one of the areas being looked at as part of the review into the immigration system.

We had an interim cap at the moment, but there was a clear ambition from this Government that we wanted to attract the brightest and the best to this country. Alongside that, we needed to control uncontrolled immigration.

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