Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to reverse her Department's plans to not issue visas to low-skilled migrants in response to the covid-19 pandemic.

We will not be introducing a route for employers to recruit at or near the legal minimum wage those the member believes are “low-skilled migrants” based on job offers which do not meet the requirements of the new skilled worker route.

Immigration policies should be considered as part of, not as an alternative to, efforts to get those UK based workers who have lost their employment due to the impacts of Covid-19 back into work or ensuring those who work in key roles are offered appropriate salary packages.