Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help support high skilled immigration from Commonwealth countries.

Attracting the brightest and best from the Commonwealth and the wider world is a key feature of our global points-based immigration system.

We want the UK to be the preferred destination for global talent, such as scientists, engineers and academics,and we have reformed and expanded the Global Talent route to accommodate them.

We continue to enhance our offer for those looking to come to the UK to undertake high skilled employment, including those who demonstrate high potential at an early career stage through introducing routes such as the High Potential Individual route which opened for applications earlier this year.