Question follow-through · 72431

Visas: Care Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support overseas carers unable to take up alternative employment as their employer’s sponsorship licence has been suspended and not yet revoked.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 29 Aug 2025
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2025
Answer: 17 Sept 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support overseas carers unable to take up alternative employment as their employer’s sponsorship licence has been suspended and not yet revoked.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2025
Answer published
Whilst a Sponsor is suspended, there is no impact on a worker’s ability to continue to remain in their employment. We do not predetermine an outcome related to their licence at this stage.However, the Home Office have confirmed they will support these wor...

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