Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas have been issued to people studying at each university in the 2025-26 academic year.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Home Office does not publish information on how many student visas have been issued to people studying at each university.
The Home Office does publish data on sponsored study visas by course level in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on visas issued are published in table ‘Edu_D02’ of the ‘sponsored study visas by course level dataset’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data is from January 2018 up to the end of March 2025. Please note the data does not show the academic year the visa was granted for, or whether the visa was issued to study at a university.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 73359 on Visas: Migrant Workers, on how many occasions her Department received such a notification by visa type since 4 July 2024; and how many and what proportion of those notifications resulted in a migrant (a) leaving the UK, (b) transferring to a new visa type and (c) being subsequently sponsored by a new employer.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested is not available from published statistics and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visa holders her Department holds a UK residential address for.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
People applying for UK visas may provide a UK residential address on their application but large proportions of visa holders coming to the UK on a short-term basis such as a visitor will not be resident in the UK.
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have dependent visas associated with a holder of a charity worker visa.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
In total, 3,971 Charity Worker visas have been issued from 2023 to the end of June 2025.
Data on charity worker visas issued is published as part of the Immigration system statistics data tables regular releases on the Gov.uk website at: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have a charity worker visa.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
In total, 3,971 Charity Worker visas have been issued from 2023 to the end of June 2025.
Data on charity worker visas issued is published as part of the Immigration system statistics data tables regular releases on the Gov.uk website at: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who entered the UK on a social care work visa in each of the past ten years remain (a) in the UK and (b) working in social care.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who (a) have indefinite leave to remain and (b) arrived in the UK on a skilled worker visa who work in an eligible profession.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Home Office does not produce estimates of the total number of people who currently hold indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK, and of those, who arrived on a Skilled Worker visa and are working in an eligible profession.
Migration Statistics do not provide estimates but instead publish official data on casework applications and decisions made under the UK immigration system. These data are available within the quarterly Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK publication.
While Migration Statistics do not hold the total number of people with ILR, we do publish quarterly figures on the number of grants and refusals of settlement, and those made through the EU Settlement Scheme, both of which provide the overview of indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
In addition, the Migrant journey - GOV.UK detailed dataset (table MJ_D02) provides information on the number of people granted settlement each year by their year of initial grant and category of leave. However, this dataset’s level of detail only extends to the broad category of “Worker”, which may include those initially granted a Skilled Worker visa, but not exclusively; it can also include other routes such as Health and Care Worker or related visa types.
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people with indefinite leave to remain status are in full time employment.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested is not centrally held.
The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics relating to decisions on applications for Indefinite Leave to Remain, and those made through the EU Settlement Scheme, in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK publication, both of which provide an overview of those persons with indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the number of organisations on the register who can sponsor charity workers whose main function is to perform religious work.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested is not available from published statistics and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what step her Department is taking to ensure that Skilled Worker visa holders are earning an income above the qualifying threshold for that visa.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Our compliance officers regularly check workers salary particulars, including bank statements detailing payments made to them by their employer, as well as the payment documentation provided by sponsors. In addition, routine checks are carried out with OGDs if there is any indication of a failure to pay the designated rate.