Question follow-through · 115786
Department for Business and Trade: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff within his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff within his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2026
Answer published
The requested data is not held centrally in a reportable format.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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