Question follow-through · 27478
Skilled Workers: Visas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of holders of Skilled Worker visas are net contributors to the Exchequer.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 7 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of holders of Skilled Worker visas are net contributors to the Exchequer.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Migration Advisory Committee advises government on migration issues. In their 2024 annual report, they estimated the average skilled worker migrant has a positive net fiscal impact of £16,300.Their analysis does not provide a distributional breakdown ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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