Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled Restoring Control over the Immigration System, published on 12 May 2025, when she plans to publish further information on the expansion to the points-based system for immigration.

As part of our Plan for Change, this Government is taking decisive action to bring net migration down and restore control over the immigration system.

In July we began implementing the first set of reforms outlined in the Immigration White Paper – Restoring Control over the Immigration System. These reforms represent a fundamental shift in the UK’s approach to immigration, focusing on higher skills, lower numbers and tighter controls. Our approach will end the UK’s reliance on overseas recruitment and ensure the system better supports investment in the domestic workforce.

The July package of measures included:

• raising the skills threshold for Skilled Worker visas, removing 111 eligible occupations
• closing the social care worker visa route to overseas recruitment in response to widespread abuse and exploitation
• only allowing time-limited access below degree level through a targeted immigration salary list and temporary shortage list, for critical roles only, with strict requirements for sectors to grow domestic skills
• commissioning the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to conduct a review of the temporary shortage list including occupations, salaries and benefits

By the end of this year, we will also:

• Begin uplifting language requirements across the immigration system
• Launch a consultation on the Earned Settled model, and
• Make statements on family migration reform.

Over the course of this Parliament, we will continue to roll out additional measures to further strengthen our immigration system. Details of these will be announced in due course.