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date	28/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November to Question 1561 on Visas: Applications, what is the (a) target time and (b) average time taken to process a skilled worker visa.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	4149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office makes every attempt to meet the service level agreement standard, but in certain cases additional checks are required which can mean visa requests take longer to process.</p><p>Data on performance against service standards is published through migration transparency data and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p><p>The Home Office also publishes information on visa processing times for applications inside and outside the UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/visa-processing-times" target="_blank">Visa processing times - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/12/2023 16:57:34 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1673506

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work visas were (a) applied for, (b) granted and (c) refused by job type in each financial year from 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	4276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on sponsored work entry clearance visas by occupation and industry in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on applications and grants are published in tables Occ_D01 and Occ_D02, respectively, of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#sponsored-work-visas-by-occupation-and-industry" target="_blank">Sponsored work visas by occupation and industry</a> dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The data relates to between 2021 Q1 and 2023 Q3.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 05/12/2023 17:09:21 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1673528

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 2778 on Immigration: Employment, and Freedom of Information release 31192, published on 11 June 2014, how many illegal working enforced visits were made by the UK Border Agency by employment sector in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	4058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office refers to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.</p><p>Information about the number of illegal working enforcement visits conducted by Immigration Enforcement by employment sector is not available in our published data.</p><p>Our published data on enforcement visits (including illegal working visits) is available at the following link - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-relating-to-the-illegal-migration-bill" target="_blank">Statistics relating to the Illegal Migration Act - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/12/2023 17:45:49 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg