Question follow-through · 53794
Visas: Seasonal Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend the Seasonal Worker visa route beyond 6 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 30 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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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
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend the Seasonal Worker visa route beyond 6 months.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 May 2025
Answer published
The Seasonal Worker route is already available to growers throughout the full year but there are no plans to extend the maximum visa grant beyond the existing six months.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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