Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the seasonal agricultural workers scheme before the 2020 harvest; and if she will ensure that the parameters of any limit on the number of migrant workers employed under that scheme are based on (a) quantified and (b) evidenced priorities of the (i) farming and (ii) processing sectors.

The Government has committed to continue the Seasonal Workers Pilot and in our election manifesto we set out plans to increase the scheme to 10,000 places following the UK’s exit from the European Union.

Details will be set out in due course.