Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many welders have been given visas to work in the UK under the skilled worker visa scheme over the last five years.

The Home Office publishes data on sponsored work visas by occupation in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on grants of visas are published in table ‘Occ_D02’ of the sponsored work visas by occupation and industry dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data is from January 2021 up to the end of June 2026.