Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications were received for Skilled Worker visas from (1) 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023, and (2) 1 April 2023 to 31 May 2023; and of these, how many were for operatives in the fishing industry who work within the 12 nautical miles off the coast of the UK.

The Home Office publishes data on Entry clearance visas in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Data on the number of Skilled Worker applications are published in table Vis_D01 of the Managed migration datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The latest data relates up to Q1 2023 (January to March).

Some of the SOC codes for use in the nautical sector aren’t specifically for fishing so the information requested could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.