Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 83227 on Visas: Skilled Workers, what assessment she has made of the number of workers working under the skilled worker visa route who will find themselves ineligible to (a) extend their employment, (b) change employment and (c) apply for settled status in (i) 2026, (ii) 2027 and (iii) 2028, in the context of increases in income thresholds which came into effect on 22 July 2025.

Updates to the salary requirements on the route reflect the latest available UK pay data and do not contain any policy changes. We expect sponsored workers’ pay to progress similarly to other UK workers. Transitional arrangements exempt workers who are already in the Skilled Worker route from the increase to the skills threshold, however they will not be in place indefinitely and will be reviewed in due course.

It is our intention to publish an Impact Assessment at the earliest opportunity. A technical annex (www.gov.uk/government/publications/restoring-control-over-the-immigration-system-white-paper/restoring-control-over-the-immigration-system-technical-annex) was published alongside the Immigration White Paper setting out the impact of some of the key policy changes.