Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the projected annual quota for the Seasonal Worker Visa Scheme over the next five years.

The Home Office works closely with the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to set the annual quotas for the Seasonal Worker route. This process takes into consideration a range of data and information including previous years’ usages, work force plans and industry intelligence because the Government keeps the annual quota numbers under review, we are unable to provide an estimated projection of what the visa numbers will be over the next five years.