Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employers have used the Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017 between its introduction in 2017 and October 2022.

All foreign national workers coming to work in UK territorial waters need permission to work before starting work in the UK, unless they are covered by an exemption.

The Home Office does not collect or store the data on the number of overseas nationals working under the concession in the offshore industry in the UK from 2017 to date.

We do not collect information on employers using the concession. The Government has no plans to publish information on individual companies which is consistent with the policy across the wider immigration system.

The Government regularly reviews the existence of concessions against the general principles of the immigration system to check whether they are necessary and regularly undertakes engagement with a wide range of stakeholders. This will continue to be the case in future.