Question follow-through · 52402

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the reforms to allow a limited pool of UNHCR recognised refugees and displaced people living overseas to apply for employment through existing sponsored worker routes.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 14 May 2025
Target answer date: 16 May 2025
Answer: 22 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the reforms to allow a limited pool of UNHCR recognised refugees and displaced people living overseas to apply for employment through existing sponsored worker routes.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2025
Answer published
Refugees who have had to leave their home country because of persecution often lack the opportunity to apply for jobs and skilled worker visas in the UK, even where they have the talent and training to do so.The Home Office’s Displaced Talent Mobility Pil...

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