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Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in her Department are employed on Skilled Worker Visas.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 21 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 25 Feb 2025
Answer: 3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in her Department are employed on Skilled Worker Visas.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
DWP currently employs 204 people on a skilled worker visa.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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