Question follow-through · 50809

Migrant Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of limiting sponsored workers to 20 hours of secondary employment on migrant workers; and if she will make an assessment of the potentia

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 7 May 2025
Target answer date: 12 May 2025
Answer: 15 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of limiting sponsored workers to 20 hours of secondary employment on migrant workers; and if she will make an assessment of the potentia
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
The salary rules we have in place on many sponsored work routes are designed to ensure workers are paid enough from their primary sponsored employment to be able to support themselves without needing to take second jobs.The rules are designed to strike a ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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