Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2022 to Question 902177 on Wind Power: Migrant Workers, when it was agreed to extend the concession; and what discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials had with employers before the extension agreement.

The Home Office does not collect or store data on the number of overseas nationals working under the concession in the offshore industry in the UK from 2017 to date.

The Home Office is not responsible for evaluating the labour market or governing how private companies recruit their workers. The information about the concession is published at Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017: October 2022 update - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) on gov.uk for employers to access if they wish to.

The Home Office regularly engages with other government departments, including the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Transport, and external stakeholders on matters relating to immigration. The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Immigration regularly meet various stakeholders and their counterparts across government in formal and informal meetings to discuss a wide range of issues.