Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2022 to Question 102998 on Wind Power: Migrant Workers, which stakeholders her Department consulted prior to the introduction of the Offshore Wind Workers Immigration Rules Concession 2017.

The Home Office regularly engages with other government departments.

The Home Office is not responsible for evaluating the labour market or governing how private companies recruit their workers.

The immigration system aims to allow employers to access the skilled labour that they need to grow the UK economy whilst also ensuring that we maintain control over who comes to the UK to work.