Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her officials have had discussions with the Migration Advisory Committee on the effect of the Offshore Wind Workers Immigration Rules Concession 2017 on the Shortage Occupation List (a) since the concession was first introduced and (b) to date.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
The information is not held in the requested format.
Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2022 to Question 24576 on Migrant Workers: Wind Power, how many employers that used the Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017 have applied for a sponsor licence since 1 July 2022.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
The information is not held in the requested format.
Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Border Force on the potential implications of extending the Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017 from 2 July 2022 to 31 October 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
We regularly review all policies and concessions, engaging with Home Office operational commands and stakeholders during this process.
On 22 June 2022 we announced the ‘Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017’ will be extended for a final time, ending in line with the implementation of Section 43 and Schedule 6 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022. Leave to enter under the terms of the concession will not be granted beyond 31 October 2022.
We expect employers to use the period between July and October to recruit labour from the resident workforce, or should they wish to continue employing overseas labour, to obtain a Home Office sponsor licence and secure the necessary permission to work for all their foreign workers.
Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications are currently being processed by HM Passport Office; and how many passport applications are taking longer than 10 week estimated processing time.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.
Between March and May, 98.5% of UK applications processed were completed within ten weeks.