Question follow-through · 51660
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing age stratification in the Skilled Worker visa minimum salary criteria.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Visas: Students · 13 May 2025
- Visas: Skilled Workers · 13 May 2025
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- Visas: Skilled Workers · 30 May 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
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing age stratification in the Skilled Worker visa minimum salary criteria.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The Home Office keeps all aspects of the immigration system under review, and recently published a white Paper setting out the Government’s plans for reform of salary requirements and a wide range of other areas.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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