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, if she will (a) publish the process for reviewing the Offshore Wind Workers Immigration Rules Concession 2017 and (b) take steps to include maritime trade unions in that process.


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

The Home Office does not collect or store the data on the number of overseas nationals working 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 wider immigration system.

The Home Office is unable to report on the cost or staff hours spent in relation to the concession. To obtain this information would require detailed reporting against many Home Office units and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.

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.

The information about the concession is published online at:

Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017: July 2021 update - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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