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Written Question
Visas: Migrant Workers
Tuesday 21st January 2025

Asked by: Lorraine Beavers (Labour - Blackpool North and Fleetwood)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to take steps to improve the usability for the UK Visas and Immigration Sponsor Management System.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)

The Home Office is currently investing in an ambitious programme of transformation to improve efficiency and effectiveness, which includes the sponsorship I.T system.


Commons Chamber
Devolution (Immigration) (Scotland) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 25 Apr 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) and breadth of the UK. - Speech Link
2: Graham Leadbitter (SNP - Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey) and other Departments in the UK Government, but we are talking about immigration today. - Speech Link
3: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) It is also clear that different visas for different parts of the UK would restrict movement and rights - Speech Link
4: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) That would require UK Border Force, which carries out immigration checks for external ports, and customs - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Migration Advisory Committee

Dec. 17 2024

Source Page: Migration Advisory Committee: annual report, 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: Figure 1.8: Health and Care visas Source: Home Office immigration statistics.


Westminster Hall
Future of Fishing - Tue 05 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rupert Lowe (RUK - Great Yarmouth) We should enforce rules stating that all fish caught in UK waters must be landed and processed in, and - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) and sold at scale in UK supermarkets. - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) the UK-EU trade and co-operation agreement, and we must re-enter negotiations with the EU to provide - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) of the UK catching and processing sectors.As hon. - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Home Office

Mar. 27 2025

Source Page: Home Office spending over £25,000: 2025
Document: (webpage)

Found: DLA PIPER UK LLP 2891802-9020078370-170627-237897-1-2025 28547.64 Home Office Disclosure and Barring


Deposited Papers
Home Office

Jul. 13 2011

Source Page: Family migration: a consultation. Consultation paper. 77 p.
Document: DEP2011-1208.pdf (PDF)

Found: . 2.10 The Immigration Rules and EEA Regulations allow the UK Border Agency to refuse a non-EEA


Westminster Hall
Universities: Funding and Employment - Wed 02 Apr 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) That would be devastating for families, for the city and for Scotland and the wider UK. - Speech Link
2: Danny Beales (Lab - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) Brunel educates 16,000 students a year and contributes £750 million to the UK economy. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) That is poor for the economy and the UK industry, and catastrophic for universities and students—22,000 - Speech Link
4: Jessica Toale (Lab - Bournemouth West) Those factors have affected student decisions on whether and where to study in the UK, and universities - Speech Link
5: Ian Sollom (LD - St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire) in university research and innovation, the UK gets £14 back. - Speech Link


Deposited Papers
Home Office

Feb. 20 2008

Source Page: Tables [undated] showing, within the context of EU law, a) civil judicial co-operation instruments: measures to which the UK has opted in and has not opted in and b) Border and Immigration Agency measures to which the UK has opted in and has not opted in. 12 p.
Document: DEP2008-0489.xls (Excel)

Found: (This applies to civil judicial co-operation as well as asylum and immigration)BIAMEASURES TO WHICH THE


Deposited Papers
Home Office

Jan. 30 2008

Source Page: Updated version dated 31/01/2008 of tables showing, within the context of EU law, a) civil judicial co-operation instruments: measures to which the UK has opted in and has not opted in and b) Border and Immigration Agency measures to which the UK has opted in and has not opted in. 12 p.
Document: DEP2008-0272.xls (Excel)

Found: (This applies to civil judicial co-operation as well as asylum and immigration)BIAMEASURES TO WHICH THE


Deposited Papers
Home Office

Sep. 15 2010

Source Page: Table showing measures which have been presented to the European Council pursuant to Title IV on the Treaty establishing the European Community (“TEC pre-Lisbon measures”) and Title V of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU post-Lisbon measures”) attracting the UK opt-in. 27 p.
Document: DEP2010-1728.xls (Excel)

Found: VI and Annex 13 of the Common Consular Instructions on Visas and Annex 6a to the Common Manual with