Migrant Workers: Visas

(asked on 29th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of raising the minimum salary threshold on levels of immigration.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 8th December 2023

The Shortage Occupation List (SOL) is reviewed regularly by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC,) through extensive consultation with economic sectors. The SOL was updated in August this year with a wider MAC SOL review published in October. The Government is currently considering its response.

More broadly, the Government is considering additional measures to address net migration and will announce details of these in due course.

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