Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many visas a) his Department and b) the Office for National Statistics have sponsored since 4 July 2024.

Between 4 July 2024 and 1 December 2025:

1. The Cabinet Office has sponsored 43 visas1.

1 This has been counted by the date Cabinet Office has issued a Certificate of Sponsorship. It includes fast streamers, existing employees and employees who have moved to other departments within that period as part of a machinery of government.

As part b of the information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority, a response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 1st of December is attached.