Question follow-through · 96578
Hospitality Industry: Seasonal Workers and Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what assessment has the Department made of the impact that delays in UK Visas and Immigration processing times are having on the ability of hospitality businesses to recruit seasonal and skilled w
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what assessment has the Department made of the impact that delays in UK Visas and Immigration processing times are having on the ability of hospitality businesses to recruit seasonal and skilled w
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
UKVI are not currently experiencing any delays against our published service standards for either Seasonal or Skilled Workers.These can be found at:Visa processing times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UKVisa processing times: applications outside the U...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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