Question follow-through · 61502
Visas: Frontier Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) staff headcount, (b) full-time equivalent number of staff and (c) departmental budget required to administer the Frontier Worker Visa scheme was in each year between 2021-22 and 2024-25.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 5 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, what the (a) staff headcount, (b) full-time equivalent number of staff and (c) departmental budget required to administer the Frontier Worker Visa scheme was in each year between 2021-22 and 2024-25.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
The department operates a flexible staffing model to ensure that available resources are deployed effectively according to demand. As such, staff engaged on the Frontier Worker Visa scheme are also engaged in the administration of other high-volume routes...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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