Question follow-through · 95999
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that reforms to the visa system help ensure that UK business can employ talented international workers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that reforms to the visa system help ensure that UK business can employ talented international workers.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government’s approach is to link migration policy and visa controls to skills and labour market policies, so that immigration is not used as an alternative to training or tackling workforce problems in the UK. This approach will be important to enabl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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