For the coming year, even as we have reduced the number of economic migrants overall by seven thousand, we have actually increased the number of Tier 2 visas available.
Currently their main obstacle is the unwillingness of cable operators to put a network of interest to only a fraction of their viewers on a tier available to a broad number of their subscribers.
The number of visas issued to skilled non-EU migrants without job offers - known as tier 1 - would be cut by 13, 000 to 1, 000, and the corresponding number of visas issued to those with job offers - known as tier 2 - would increase by 7, 000 to 20, 700, Mrs May explained.