Visas

(asked on 16th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 23 July 2019, Official Report, HCWS1803, on Immigration, stating that her Department accepted that the Migration Advisory Committee's recommendation to pilot such a visa was worth pursuing and that further details would follow, for what reasons the Answer of 14 July 2020 to Question 71803 stated that her Department has not had plans to pilot a remote areas visa scheme; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 21st July 2020

Whatever position the previous Government may have taken, this Government has never had plans to pilot a remote area visa scheme. Instead this Government will introduce a points-based immigration system which will benefit all parts of the United Kingdom.

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