Migrant Workers: Wind Power

(asked on 15th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2021 to Question 58819 on Migrant Workers: Home Office, how many visas have been issued to foreign nationals arriving for work in UK territorial waters under the terms of the concession as of 15 November 2021.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 18th November 2021

Home Office Migration Statistics do not publish the number of seafarers who have been granted leave to enter the UK to join vessels working in UK territorial waters under the Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession.

To capture numbers would require a manual trawl of data and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.

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