Written Question·Home Office·UIN 77553

Social Workers: Visas

Tabled: 16 September 2025

Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Cat Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many social workers are working in the UK on a (a) skilled workers visa and (b) health and care visa.

Answer

Mike Tapp

The Home Office publishes data on sponsored work visas by occupation in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release. Data on grants of visas are published in table ‘Occ_D02’ of the ‘sponsored work visas by occupation and industry dataset. Informa...

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