Question follow-through · 66759

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultation her Department undertook on the potential impact of changes to the skilled worker route on the supply of (a) dental hygienists and (b) dental nurses.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
15 Jul 2025
Answer
15 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultation her Department undertook on the potential impact of changes to the skilled worker route on the supply of (a) dental hygienists and (b) dental nurses.

  2. 15 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 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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