Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of (a) care workers and (b) senior care workers issued a health and care worker visa were (i) female and (ii) male in each of the last five years.

The Home Office publishes data on sponsored work visas by occupation in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on grants of visas are published in table ‘Occ_D02’ of the sponsored work visas by occupation and industry dataset. Selecting ‘6145 – Care workers and home carers’ and ‘6146 – Senior care workers’ from the occupation filter will output data on care workers and senior care workers respectively. Selecting ‘Skilled Worker – Health and Care’ will also output data on health and care worker visas. Nationality and time frames can also be filtered.

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 September 2023.

We are unable to provide a gender breakdown in the published dataset.