Question follow-through · 83230

Skilled Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of the changes to income thresholds in the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules, HC 997, published on 1 July 2025, on the number of people empl

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 20 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 22 Oct 2025
Answer: 28 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of the changes to income thresholds in the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules, HC 997, published on 1 July 2025, on the number of people empl
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department currently sponsors 26 staff on skilled worker visas. As and when each sponsorship ends, we consider individuals on a case-by-case basis under the UK’s sponsorship rules.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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