Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of psychiatrists currently on a Tier 2 visa who will attract the immigration skills charge.

No psychiatrists currently on a Tier 2 visa will attract the immigration skills charge.

The immigration skills charge will not apply where an individual has already been assigned a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship at the time the regulations come into force.

There is also an exemption to the immigration skills charge for PhD level occupations.