Migrant Workers: Care Workers
(asked on 10th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting the adult social care sector from proposed increases in the certificate of sponsorship fee.
Answered by
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
This question was answered on 13th March 2025
Fees for immigration and nationality applications are kept under review.
However, there are no current plans to exempt the adult social care sector from the certificate of sponsorship fee increase.
A provisional estimate of the impact of increasing sponsorship fees is a less than 0.2% increase in the cost of hiring an average skilled worker.