Welcome to the second in our series of Beyond Brexit Podcasts.

Today we are discussing immigration and the need for business to assess their resourcing requirements

in light of the UK's future exit from the EU.

I'm Gayna Bagley, PWC's Head of Corpor purpose, and I also chair our EU steering committee.

And I'm joined by Julia Onslow Cole, PWC's Global Head of Immigration, and a member of the

Mayor of London's Brexit Expert Advisory Panel. So Julia, just remind us, what is the real impact

of Brexit on immigration? Why is it such an important issue for business?

Well, obviously, business realizes that in quite a short space of time, their whole talent stream is

going to change. So at the moment, business has an enormous access to EU migration. And obviously,

they're not going to have such strong access in the future

and therefore they've got to look very closely at the impact that this will have on their

business and their supply chains.

It really means they've got to kind of plan more carefully about where their supply of talent

is going to come from.

Absolutely.

Some avenues might be suddenly cut off without them planning ahead.

Absolutely.

So are you seeing particular businesses impacted more than others?

Yes.

So I mean, I think that the businesses that are really going to face a very big impact are those that use low-skilled EU migrants.

So for example, if you look at the construction

industry many of the construction companies use as much as 40 to 70% low-skilled

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