Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of health and care worker visa holders have dependents in the UK.

The Home Office publishes data on health and care worker visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of health and care visa worker visa applications are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset.

Selecting ‘Skilled Worker – Health and Care’ from the visa type subgroup filter and ‘Dependant’ from the applicant type filter will output data on the dependants of health and care worker visa holders. 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. The latest data relates up to the end of September 2023.

To calculate the proportion of dependants of health and care worker visa holders, divide dependents by total applicants in a given time period.