Migrant Workers: Visas — Written Question

Question

Ms Marie Rimmer

Labour — St Helens South and Whiston

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of applying bandings to regional areas of the UK to the base minimum salary thresholds and occupation-specific going rates for businesses employin

Answer

Mike Tapp

We do not plan to introduce varying salary requirements based on location. Our aim is to have a single immigration system which works for the whole of the UK.Every occupation is expected to be paid at least the “going rate”, which is set at the median for...

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