Question follow-through · 18784
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Skilled Worker visas have been granted since 2024 to applicants sponsored by takeaway and restaurant businesses; and what assessment she has made of the occupations for which those visas were
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2026 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Skilled Worker visas have been granted since 2024 to applicants sponsored by takeaway and restaurant businesses; and what assessment she has made of the occupations for which those visas were
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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16 Jul 2026
Answer published
The information requested is not available from published statistics and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost. Our Immigration White Paper, published last year, set out...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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