Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to offer free visas extensions to NHS health care workers whose visa permits expire after 1 October 2020.

The Government recognises the vital contribution overseas NHS, health and social care workers have and continue to make in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Earlier in the year we offered free visa extensions for health professionals whose visas were due to expire between 31 March 2020 and 1 October 2020. Today we have announced we will extend this offer from 1 October 2020 until 31 March 2021.

More details of this announcement can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-more-health-workers-to-benefit-from-visa-extensions