Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) occupations and (b) salaries bands were of foreign workers granted exceptional consideration for certificates of sponsorship under the Tier 2 visa scheme in December 2017.

The specific information that has been requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.

Certificates of Sponsorship may only be granted under exceptional consideration if the application scores enough points that it could have been granted under the previous monthly allocation.