Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 (General) working visas have been issued in each of the last 24 months.

The Home Office publishes data on Tier 2 (General) visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on the number of Tier 2 (General) visas are published in table Vis_D02 of the entry clearance visas applications and outcomes dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.

The latest data relates to year ending December 2020. Data for the first quarter of 2021 are due to be published on 27 May 2021.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.