Select committee: Home Affairs Committee

Work-based immigration

Open Opened 15 Sep 2026
Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
This inquiry will examine work migration to the UK. It will: scrutinise the government's approach to the Skilled Worker visa consider how decisions are made about which occupations should be eligible for work visas examine the link between skills policy and immigration policy consider when and how work migration should form part of the response to labour shortages evaluate the effectiveness of cross-government working on work migration Read the call for evidence for more detail about the inquiry.

Where it stands

The inquiry is open, opened 15 September 2026.

The committee has not published a report yet.