Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer by the Minister for Immigration to the Question from the hon. Member for East Lothian of 16 November 2022, Official Report, column 669, for what reason the Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017 was extended in the period between 15 June 2017 and 1 July 2022.

We are clear that all employers should first seek to recruit from the resident labour market before using immigration to provide a work force.

The concession will expire on 30 April 2023 at which point it will be reviewed.