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Lord Boateng (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 26 November 2025

Debate

Visas: Highly Skilled People

Contribution

My Lords, one of the unintended consequences to which the Minister referred is that hard-pressed and hard-working prison officers, who happen to earn less than £41,700 per year, will, as a result of this Government’s policies, find themselves deported when their visas expire. Given the impact that will have on the already strained criminal justice system, will the Minister undertake to ask his colleagues to think again about that policy?

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