Question follow-through · 1389
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to (a) reverse changes made to the eligibility criteria for the Skilled Worker visa announced on 4 December 2023 and (b) bring forward revised eligibility criteria for t
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 31 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Immigration: Hong Kong · 24 Jul 2024
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- Offshore Industry: Migrant Workers · 16 Oct 2024
- Visas: Horticulture · 23 Oct 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to (a) reverse changes made to the eligibility criteria for the Skilled Worker visa announced on 4 December 2023 and (b) bring forward revised eligibility criteria for t
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jul 2024
Answer published
I refer the honourable member to the Written Ministerial Statement made by the Home Secretary on 30 July [Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament].
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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