Question follow-through · 53101
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of raising the salary threshold to £45,000 for work visas; and if she will make an assessment of the impact of this on net migrati
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of raising the salary threshold to £45,000 for work visas; and if she will make an assessment of the impact of this on net migrati
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
The Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May 2025, announced new measures on a wide range of issues, including the rules on citizenship and refugee settlement, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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