Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many shortage occupation list vacancies have been filled by (a) refugees and (b) people entering the UK as part of a resettlement scheme in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.

The Government does not collect the information required to calculate the number of people with refugee status employed in the UK. Those granted refugee status in the UK have full, unrestricted, labour market access and are free to take employment without notifying the Home Office.

To capture numbers would require a manual trawl of data and to do so would incur a disproportionate cost.