Question follow-through · 114614
Migrant Workers: Livestock Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of refusal to grant temporary visas to overseas sheep shearers on rural farming communities and animal welfare.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of refusal to grant temporary visas to overseas sheep shearers on rural farming communities and animal welfare.
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2026
Answer published
Immigration Rules concessionary arrangements are temporary and subject to regular Ministerial review. The sheep shearing concession had been operating for 14 years and closed after the 2025 shearing season as it reasonable to expect that over this period ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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