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Written Question
Visas: Skilled Workers
Tuesday 29th October 2024

Asked by: Lord Freyberg (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the salary threshold of £38,700 for a Skilled Worker visa.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

In the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement on 30th July, she outlined that the UK government would be retaining the salary thresholds set in April this year. Further details can be found here: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024- 07-30/hcws51.

Written Question
Crafts: Skilled Workers
Tuesday 29th October 2024

Asked by: Lord Freyberg (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to add critically endangered crafts on the Radcliffe Red List to the Shortage Occupation List to help UK-based heritage craft businesses recruit skilled artisans.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

Any job which meets the skill requirement of the Skilled Worker immigration route can be sponsored for a visa. The majority of the occupations on the red list are eligible to be sponsored.

The Shortage Occupation List (SOL) was replaced with the Immigration Salary List (ISL).