Question follow-through · 4034

Aviation: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the use of Skilled Worker visas by UK airlines to recruit non-UK national airline pilots; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure that qualified UK-

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
21 May 2026
Target answer date
1 Jun 2026
Answer
2 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 21 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the use of Skilled Worker visas by UK airlines to recruit non-UK national airline pilots; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure that qualified UK-

  2. 1 Jun 2026

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  3. 2 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The aviation industry is a multinational sector which seeks qualified employees from a range of employment markets. The points-based system aims to strike the right balance between business access to labour and protecting resident workers.There have been ...

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