Question follow-through · 77555
Social Workers: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of linking salary requirements to NHS pay scales on overseas social workers with skilled worker visas employed by local authorities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2025 · 31 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of linking salary requirements to NHS pay scales on overseas social workers with skilled worker visas employed by local authorities.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
We use Office for National Statistics (ONS) data to set salary requirements for occupations, except where a national pay scale exists. In the case of social workers, the NHS Agenda for Change is the only available national scale, as Local Authority rates ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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