Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been granted visa extensions under the scheme of free one-year visa extensions for health workers during the covid-19 outbreak.
Since the free extension was introduced in March 2020 we have extended the visas of more than 7000 eligible healthcare professionals, and their dependants.
More details of the scheme can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-more-health-workers-to-benefit-from-visa-extensions