Question follow-through · 66074

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of excluding dental therapists from the skilled worker visa scheme on NHS dentistry provision.

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
21 Jul 2025
Answer
21 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of excluding dental therapists from the skilled worker visa scheme on NHS dentistry provision.

  2. 21 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 21 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    On 12 May, we published our Immigration White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’, outlining our future approach to legal migration routes. The first set of immigration rules giving effect to the policies in the White Paper was published...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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