Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employers in each industry category set out in the Government's Office of National Statistics Standard Industrial Classification system hold a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence.
The information requested is set out in the table below.
Industry sector | Number of Sponsors |
Accommodation | 199 |
Accommodation and Food Service Activities | 656 |
Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities | 69 |
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies | 38 |
Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities | 202 |
Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel | 1 |
Activities of households as employers; production activities of household for own use | 3 |
Activities of membership organisations | 286 |
Administrative and Support Activities | 1 |
Administrative and Support Service Activities | 227 |
Advertising and market research | 290 |
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing | 60 |
Air transport | 107 |
Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis | 240 |
Arts, Entertainment and Recreation | 513 |
Civil engineering | 86 |
Computer programming, consultancy and related activities | 1,052 |
Construction | 313 |
Construction of buildings | 98 |
Creative, arts and entertainment activities | 352 |
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities | 52 |
Education | 2,173 |
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | 131 |
Employment activities | 166 |
Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas | 110 |
Financial and Insurance Activities | 922 |
Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding | 972 |
Fishing and aquaculture | 5 |
Food and beverage service activities | 1,389 |
Forestry and logging | 1 |
Gambling and betting activities | 21 |
Human health activities | 959 |
Human Health and Social Work Activities | 803 |
Information and Communication | 17 |
Information and Communications | 1,805 |
Information service activities | 298 |
Insurance, reinsurance, pension funding exc compulsory social security | 158 |
Land transport and transport via pipelines | 33 |
Legal and accounting activities | 380 |
Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities | 56 |
Manufacture of basic metals | 24 |
Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and preparations | 72 |
Manufacture of beverages | 26 |
Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products | 75 |
Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products | 5 |
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products | 125 |
Manufacture of electrical equipment | 129 |
Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery | 79 |
Manufacture of food products | 138 |
Manufacture of furniture | 17 |
Manufacture of leather and related products | 7 |
Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. | 129 |
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers | 38 |
Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products | 7 |
Manufacture of other transport equipment | 29 |
Manufacture of paper and paper products | 22 |
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products | 53 |
Manufacture of textiles | 35 |
Manufacture of tobacco products | 6 |
Manufacture of wearing apparel | 33 |
Manufacture of wood/cork/straw/plaiting (not furniture) | 5 |
Manufacturing | 978 |
Mining and Quarrying | 48 |
Mining of coal and lignite | 1 |
Mining of metal ores | 14 |
Mining support service activities | 22 |
Movies, video. & TV prog, sound recording & music publishing activities | 78 |
Office administrative, office support and other business support activities | 216 |
Other manufacturing | 251 |
Other mining and quarrying | 11 |
Other personal service activities | 305 |
Other professional, scientific and technical activities | 795 |
Other Service Activities | 2,296 |
Postal and courier activities | 14 |
Printing and reproduction of recorded media | 23 |
Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities | 1,440 |
Programming and broadcasting activities | 40 |
Public Admin and defence; compulsory social security | 34 |
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security | 115 |
Public Administration and Defence | 1 |
Publishing activities | 149 |
Real Estate Activities | 275 |
Remediation activities and other waste management services | 9 |
Rental and leasing activities | 25 |
Repair and installation of machinery and equipment | 49 |
Repair of computers and personal and household goods | 11 |
Residential care activities | 554 |
Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 420 |
Scientific research and development | 187 |
Security and investigation activities | 30 |
Services to buildings and landscape activities | 39 |
Social work activities without accommodation | 182 |
Specialised construction activities | 48 |
Sports activities and amusement and recreation activities | 464 |
Telecommunications | 206 |
Transportation and Storage | 150 |
Travel agency, tour operator, reservation service & related activities | 150 |
Undifferentiated goods/services, activities of private households (own use) | 8 |
Veterinary activities | 63 |
Warehousing and support activities for transportation | 60 |
Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery | 21 |
Water collection, treatment and supply | 12 |
Water Supply, Sewerage and Waste Management | 1 |
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities | 30 |
Water transport | 63 |
Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 47 |
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 495 |
Wholesale and Retail Trade; Vehicle Repairs | 3 |
Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 316 |
Total | 27,047 |