Question follow-through · 116697
Department for Work and Pensions: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 9 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
2 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
4 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Mar 2026
Answer published
The information requested is not held centrally. Gathering this data would therefore incur disproportionate costs.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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