Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Skilled Worker (Tier 2) category visa applications were successful amongst those applying to work in the professional, scientific and technical activities employment category in each quarter since 2015.

Home Office Migration Statistics do not specifically capture the information on how many visas are granted by sector. We do publish data on the total number of certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) used, which can be found in our latest Work sponsorship data tables. The data in table CoS_D01 can be broken down by industry, which are the same as those listed in the ONS Labour Force Survey.

However, the number of CoS used is approximate to the number of visa applications received. There is no standard way of linking data on the numbers of CoS which have been used to make visa applications with the numbers of visas granted.