Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to ensure that organisations holding sponsor licences are recruiting from overseas in response to genuine labour shortages rather than as a primary business model.

The assessment of the suitability of a sponsor licence holder that has previously had a licence revoked to sponsor workers in the future is set out in Workers and Temporary Workers - guidance for sponsors part 1: apply for a licence - GOV.UK

The circumstances that would normally lead to the suspension or revocation of a sponsor licence or any other compliance action is set out in Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors part 3: sponsor duties and compliance - GOV.UK

Licensed sponsors are permitted to recruit from overseas to fill any existing eligible role.