Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employers have (a) applied for and (b) been refused UK Visa and Immigration sponsorship status in the last four years.

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

The number of new sponsor licence applications, and the number of sponsors registered on points based system (PBS) routes, is published on the Home Office website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration