Question follow-through · 105502
Visas: Care Workers and Health Professions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to protect individuals on the Health and Care Worker visa who report that they have been asked to pay additional sums to their employer in order to maintain their visa spo
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Visas: Fees and Charges · 7 Jul 2026
- Visas: Married People · 9 Jul 2026
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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
13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to protect individuals on the Health and Care Worker visa who report that they have been asked to pay additional sums to their employer in order to maintain their visa spo
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jan 2026
Answer published
All reports of H&C visa holders being forced to pay additional sums are investigated. The sponsor guidance expressly prohibits certain specific costs being passed onto workers. Since the introduction of care workers to the Health and Care Worker visa,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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