Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many extensions UKVI has processed via the covid-19 auto-extension visa scheme for eligible health professionals (a) working in the NHS, (b) working in independent health and social care and (c) in total since March 2020.

The information requested is not held in a published format and to gather it would attract a disproportionate cost.

The most recent published migration statistics can be viewed:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics

The available published data shows the numbers of visas granted in each work route but does not provide any data on the specific numbers that have been granted on this scheme nor the number of Biometric Residence Permits received by UKVI.