In his words, there should be a pull factor, not a push factor—which means that the industry should be market-led.
It is a mistake to say that cash payments are a "pull factor".
I believe that the pull factor remains the absence of a likely swift decision.
He introduced the voucher system, saying that there was much evidence to suggest that cash benefits acted as a pull factor.
We need to reduce the pull factor by clamping down on both clandestine entry and illegal working.
There is much evidence to show that vouchers do not act as a deterrent; indeed, we are told that cash is a pull factor.
Making social security cash benefits available as of right to asylum seekers in that group will act as a considerable pull factor.
We will take whatever measures are necessary to make sure that the pull factor that might draw people here is closed off.
