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Migrant Workers: Care Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the decision to end overseas recruitment of care workers.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
13 May 2025
Target answer date
16 May 2025
Answer
16 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the decision to end overseas recruitment of care workers.

  2. 16 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 May 2025

    Answer published

    We recognise the huge contribution of overseas care, but it is important that long-term plans are drawn up to train homegrown talent into the care sector.As outlined in the ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System - Technical Annex’, it is estimated...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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