Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he next plans to commission the Migration Advisory Committee to perform a full review of the shortage occupation list.

The Shortage Occupation List is kept under regular review.

The Migration Advisory Committee is currently undertaking two major commissions. Its commission on the impacts on the UK labour market of the UK’s exit from the European Union and how our immigration system should be aligned with a modern industrial strategy includes consideration of the Shortage Occupation List.

The Committee is due to report on this, and on its other commission on international students, in September.