Care Workers: Recruitment
(asked on 5th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of increasing the certificate of sponsorship fee from £239 to £525 per individual on the ability of care providers to recruit care workers.
This question was answered on 19th March 2025
The need for an Impact Assessment will be kept under review. 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.