Question follow-through · 17869
Care Workers: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving health and care workers on Tier 2 visas a certificate of common sponsorship.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Runcorn and Helsby · 24 Jan 2025
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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
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving health and care workers on Tier 2 visas a certificate of common sponsorship.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Skilled Worker immigration route, which includes the Health and Care visa, relies on the sponsorship system to ensure that international recruits are coming to a guaranteed job and will not be abused in terms of salary and conditions. A core tenet of ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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