Asked by: Robert Syms (Conservative - Poole)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals were relocated into the UK using the intra-company visa system in the most recent period for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The available published data shows the numbers of visas granted in each work route but does not provide any information on where the applicant resided (inside / outside the EU) or if the individual was “relocating”. There is also no guarantee these visas are used.
Data on visas granted by category can be found in Vis_D02 at:
entry-clearance-visa-outcomes-datasets-sep-2020.xlsx
Asked by: Robert Syms (Conservative - Poole)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of individuals in who were granted start-up visas in 2019 earned over £73,900 per annum; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office is responsible for this question, not the Treasury.
The Home Office is unable to provide the statistical answer to this question as it asks for information which is not obtainable from our systems.
The latest published migration statistics (Sept 2020) that are available, can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2020
Asked by: Robert Syms (Conservative - Poole)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals from (a) inside and (b) outside the EU were relocated for work purposes into the UK in 2019 by each of the visa categories prescribed by the Government; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The available published data shows the numbers of visas granted in each work route but does not provide any information on where the applicant resided (inside / outside the EU) or if the individual was “relocating”. There is also no guarantee these visas are used once issued.
Data on visas granted by category can be found in Vis_D02 at:
entry-clearance-visa-outcomes-datasets-sep-2020.xlsx
Asked by: Robert Syms (Conservative - Poole)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether travel restrictions during the covid-19 pandemic have reduced the number of professional staff being relocated to the UK for the purpose of taking up professional employment; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Kevin Foster
In the period in question, the relocation of non-EEA national personnel by a multinational business to a UK branch or subsidiary of that business was facilitated primarily through the Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer) category of the Immigration Rules.
The most recent published migration statistics can be viewed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics.