Wind Power: Migrant Workers

(asked on 14th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2022 to Question 106455 on Wind Power: Labour Market, how many persons granted entry to work in the UK under the Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017 provided a letter from their employer stating that they were employed in the construction or maintenance of a wind farm project within territorial waters.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 19th December 2022

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.

We do not collect information on employers using the concession. The Government has no plans to publish information on individual companies who use the immigration system which is consistent with the policy across the wider system.


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.


As previously set out, the Government regularly reviews all concessions to the Immigration Rules against the general principles of the immigration system to check whether they are necessary and regularly undertakes engagement with a wide range of stakeholders. This will continue to be the case in future.

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