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1718566

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people on a (a) student visa and (b) graduate visa took jobs (i) in caring, leisure and other service occupations, (ii) as care workers and (iii) as senior care workers in the financial year (A) 2021-22 (B) 2022-23 and (C) 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	26601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office published ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/analysis-of-migrants-use-of-the-graduate-route" target="_blank">Analysis of migrants use of the Graduate route</a>’. The report shows the proportion of student visa holders who were subsequently granted a work visa after their studies, and those who left the Graduate route and went into work (including those who were granted a Health &amp; Care visa).</p><p>The report shows that, of the 25,469 people whose Graduate visas had expired by the end of 2023, 46% had switched to a work visa (9% of the total switched to the Health &amp; Care route). In addition, based on matching Home Office visa records with HMRC income data, of Graduate visa holders who earned in at least one month during the financial year ending 2023 (including those who worked across the full year), 16% worked in the Health and Social Care work sector.</p><p>The report does not look at specific occupations Student or Graduate visa holders held, or the number of students who extended into the Health &amp; Care route. This information is not currently published by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/05/2024 15:19:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1696282

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure that the application process for visa renewals for care workers is efficient.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	18769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office carries out robust security and eligibility checks and each Certificate of Sponsorship is assessed to ensure there is a licensed sponsor and that the roles are valid.</p><p>Technological advances have also improved the customer journey meaning that large numbers are no longer required to attend a physical enrolment centre, plus Health and Care visas provide a more generous service standard than the wider Skilled Worker route.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/03/2024 12:10:35 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1696283

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the home care sector on the impact of changes to care worker visa policy.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	18770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government engages regularly with business sectors, including through a number of its advisory groups, when developing its policies and we will continue to strike the balance between reducing overall net migration and ensuring that businesses have the skills they need.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/03/2024 12:08:40 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1695006

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the report by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism entitled Visa system forces care workers to stay silent on rape and abuse, published on 11 March 2024.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	17951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government strongly condemns any allegations of such abuse.</p><p>Anyone who has witnessed or been the victim of criminal activity should, in the first instance, contact the police.</p><p>The UK’s sponsorship system has a built-in compliance framework, which has strong safeguards to prevent sponsors from engaging in illegal employment practices.</p><p>Sponsors are required to comply with UK laws, including wider employment law (such as working hours and meeting minimum salary requirements). UKVI have powers to revoke a licence where any of the key personnel named on it are convicted of certain serious offences. UKVI regularly visits premises to check sponsor compliance with the duties and requirements set out in the sponsor guidance, and this is frequently done alongside the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, whose specific remit is to protect vulnerable and exploited workers.</p><p>Employers in the health and care sector are also expected to adhere to the Department’s Health and Social Care’s Code of Practice for international recruitment. This sets out clear routes of escalation for anyone with concerns about exploitative recruitment or employment practices. It can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-for-the-international-recruitment-of-health-and-social-care-personnel/code-of-practice-for-the-international-recruitment-of-health-and-social-care-personnel-in-england" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-for-the-international-recruitment-of-health-and-social-care-personnel/code-of-practice-for-the-international-recruitment-of-health-and-social-care-personnel-in-england</a>.</p><p>Anyone who has witnessed or has been the victim of immigration abuse is strongly encouraged to report an immigration or border crime here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/report-immigration-crime" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/report-immigration-crime</a>.</p><p>Or, to the Gangmasters &amp; Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) here: <a href="http://www.gla.gov.uk/report-issues/" target="_blank">www.gla.gov.uk/report-issues/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/03/2024 16:40:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1689437

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of care workers on the health and care worker visa are employed by visa sponsors that (a) are and (b) are not registered with the Care Quality Commission as of 14 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	14336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not record or publish data on this matter. However, care workers who are currently sponsored by non-CQC-registered providers will be able to continue working for those providers after the upcoming rules change.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/02/2024 17:15:36 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1688546

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many care workers on the Health and Social Care visa are employed by visa sponsors who are (a) registered with the Care Quality Commission and (b) not registered with the Care Quality Commission.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	13821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data that would cover these requests.</p><p>However, care workers who are currently sponsored by non-CQC-registered providers will be able to continue working for those providers after the upcoming rules change.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 13823 question first answered 19/02/2024 15:54:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1678946

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an assessment of the prevalence of certificates of sponsorship for care workers being sold overseas.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	7643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office is aware of allegations of the selling of Certificates of Sponsorship to care workers overseas. All allegations of abuse are investigated but no wider assessment of the prevalence of this activity has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/01/2024 13:45:50 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1679016

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Oral Statement of 4 December 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report, column 42, on what evidential basis his Department proposed preventing overseas care workers from bringing family dependants to the UK.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	7726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister has made clear, current levels of migration to the UK are far too high. The long-term plan the Home Secretary has announced would mean around 300,000 of the people who came to the UK last year would not have been able to come.</p><p> </p><p>Care workers were added in February 2022 as a temporary addition to address acute shortages in the social care sector. This has since seen a rapid increase in numbers of people arrive with over 80,000 visas issued to main applicants in the last year to this September alone, bringing a further estimated 100,000 dependants.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will reduce the numbers on the Health and Care visa route by removing the right for care workers and senior care workers to bring dependants from spring 2024.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/01/2024 11:24:19 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1675922

registered interest
date	06/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of the ban on overseas care workers bringing their dependents to the UK on (a) women and (b) men.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	5550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The policy proposals do not directly discriminate against people on the basis of the protected characteristics. There may be some indirect impacts. We consider the measures to be proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aims of managing immigration, attracting high-skilled individuals, controlling our borders and protecting the UK taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 5551 question first answered 11/12/2023 17:03:14 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1675930

registered interest
date	06/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were granted to associated dependants of care workers who were under the age of 18 in the year ending September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	5553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the information on the number of associate dependents for care worker applications granted who were under the age of 18 in the year ending September 2023, as the Home Office does not publish breakdowns by occupation and dependents are not categorised by age within the data.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes data on visas in the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca77eac45813c4148c35e08dbf7169119%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638375448512024791%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rvY2jBKDKS5rzzTJGOq2t5sfSB5sji7CirJpPzw5lxU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the number of dependents for Health and Care applications granted, are published in table Vis_D02 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fimmigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2022%2Flist-of-tables%23entry-clearance-visas&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca77eac45813c4148c35e08dbf7169119%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638375448512024791%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jfOo5rrorE8v3IWnV3kPcox1wFEK86LVH1t3kd0vgD4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Entry clearance visas applications and outcomes detailed dataset.</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates up to, and including, 2023 Q3 (July to September).</p><p> </p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fsearch%2Fresearch-and-statistics%3Fkeywords%3Dimmigration%26content_store_document_type%3Dupcoming_statistics%26organisations%255B%255D%3Dhome-office%26order%3Drelevance&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca77eac45813c4148c35e08dbf7169119%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638375448512024791%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=3%2Fwhv7wrggmlAmKmAYM0cP6hHwhC%2Bkn2lyuUfz9MTgw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/12/2023 17:05:34 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson