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Immigration: Skilled worker visas

Status: Closed Opened: 26 Mar 2025 Closed: 22 Sep 2025 6 recommendations 34 conclusions 1 report

In 2020, following the UK’s exit from the EU, the Government introduced the skilled worker visa route, now the main route for people to apply to work in the UK. The Government aims to use the system to attract the skills the country needs and to support economic growth. The route was opened to care …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
37th Report - Immigration: Skilled worker visas HC 819 4 Jul 2025 40 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
16 Conclusion 37th Report - Immigration: Skilled work… Deferred

Home Office expanded care worker visas rapidly without completing a prior impact assessment.

The Home Office told us it had to respond quickly to the acute needs in the care sector workforce in the wake of the pandemic.36 Reflecting a report from the Migration Advisory Committee, which highlighted the need to temporarily develop the route to bring more care workers into the country, …

Government response. The government agrees with the observation and states it will write separately to the Committee on the specific point of the impact assessment, while also outlining DHSC's ongoing monitoring of the care workforce.
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Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
8 May 2025 Dame Antonia Romeo DCB · Ministry of Justice, Dan Hobbs · Home Office, Marc Owen CBE · Home Office, Simon Ridley · Home Office View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters
DateDirectionTitle
1 Dec 2025 To cttee Letter from the Second Permanent Secretary at the Home Office relating to recom…
1 Dec 2025 To cttee Letter from the Second Permanent Secretary at the Home Office and the Permanent…
24 Nov 2025 To cttee Letter from the Chair to the Permanent Secretary at the Home Office relating to…