Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to provide the Migration Advisory Committee with the (a) number of Tier 2 (General) Certificate of Sponsorship applications since November 2017 and (b) (i) number of and (ii) information on subsequent refusals of those applications due to the cap being reached in each month since November 2017.

Where the Home Office receive requests for data from Government Departments or non-departmental public bodies such the Migration Advisory Committee, it endeavours to meet their requests if such data is available.

We continue to monitor the operation of the Tier 2 visa route to ensure that Tier 2 balances enabling the brightest and best migrants to work in the UK with our commitment to reducing net migration.