Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data his Department holds on the number of migrant workers within the domestic fishing sector.

The Home Office does publish data on sponsored work visas by occupation and industry in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on the grants of sponsored work visas are published in table ‘Occ_D02’ of the sponsored work visas by occupation and industry dataset.

Selecting ‘9119 - Fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations n.e.c’ from the occupation filter will output data on visas granted to professionals coming to work in the domestic fishing sector. Time frames can be filtered.

It is important to note that these figures may include non-fishing occupations and are for people operating within UK territorial waters under a skilled worker visa.

People operating outside UK territorial waters require only a transit visa and these figures are a subset of the data on transit visas found in ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset.