Question follow-through · 61566

Solar Power and Wind Power: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were issued for workers in the (a) wind and (b) solar industry in each year since 2015.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 20 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 24 Jun 2025
Answer: 7 Jul 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

20 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were issued for workers in the (a) wind and (b) solar industry in each year since 2015.
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2025
Answer published
Available data relating to work visas is routinely published in the Immigration system statistics release.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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