Question follow-through · 116702
Department for Transport: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff within her Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 2 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 9 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff within her 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 Department for Transport (central) currently sponsors visas for 33 skilled workers and has an additional 19 employees working on other visa types.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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