Question follow-through · 117904

Livestock Industry: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reconsider the termination of the temporary visa free access scheme for overseas seasonal sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 9 Mar 2026
Answer: 9 Mar 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reconsider the termination of the temporary visa free access scheme for overseas seasonal sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Mar 2026
Answer published
All Immigration Rules concessionary arrangements are temporary and subject to regular Ministerial review. The sheep shearing concession has been operating for 14 years and the sheep farming sector has made significant efforts to provide skills training wi...

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