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* 1. Have you recruited any of the following workers in the past 5 years? The EEA includes all EU members plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Please select all that apply to your company:

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* 2. In the next 12 months are you likely to recruit? Please select all that apply to your company

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* 3. If applicable to your company, were these non-EEA workers recruited under the Tier 2 (General) visa system?

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* 4. Are the salaries required by the Tier 2 (General) immigration rules generally?

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* 5. Have you experienced any issues with Tier 2 (General) visa salary requirements? If so, what were they?

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* 6. If applicable, have any of the Tier 2 (General) visa employees employed by your company applied or tried to apply for settlement (permanent residency)?

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* 7. A minimum salary threshold applies to Tier 2 migrants, who arrived in the UK on and after 6 April 2011,  who now want to apply for permanent residency in the UK. This salary threshold is set at £35,800. The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is seeking information on whether the salary threshold has been set at the correct amount for the creative industries and others?

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* 8. Please provide any additional views of Tier 2 (General) visa settlement here:

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* 9. To what extent would your company agree or disagree with the following statement: There should not be a minimum salary threshold above the legal requirement (the national minimum wage).

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* 10. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:  If there is a salary threshold it should be applied universally across the economy and UK, with a few exceptions to keep the system simple.

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* 11. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: If there are salary thresholds, there needs to be a variety to reflect employer needs.

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* 12. If you have an alternative model you wish to describe, please outline it here:

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* 13. If there were tailored salary thresholds, to what extent would your company agree that they should be varied by sector?

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* 14. Should tailored salary thresholds be varied by region/country?

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* 15. Should tailored salary thresholds be varied by new entrants/young workers?

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* 16. Should tailored salary thresholds be varied by occupation? 

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* 17. Does your company think that jobs judged to be in shortage (such as those on the Shortage Occupation List) should have:

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* 18. Does your company think that having a salary threshold equivalent to the 25th percentile of the full-time pay distribution for employees in that occupation is:   [25th percentile: 75% of full-time employees in an occupation earn the threshold amount or more, and 25% earn less]

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* 19. Do you think that having a minimum salary requirement of £30,000 for an experienced full-time employee under the Tier 2 visa system is:

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* 20. What do you think should be counted towards the salary for assessing whether an individual meets the salary eligibility threshold?

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* 21. If you answerered 'Other' in previous question, please outline the other possible considerations here:

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* 22. The Government is considering adopting an Australian type Points Based System. In your opinion, please tell us the relative importance of the following characteristics typically used to award points to migrants by ranking them where 1 is the most important and 8/9 is the least important.

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* 23. If you answered 'Other' in the previous question, please outline what other factors should be taken into account:

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