Written Question·Home Office·UIN 68204
Visas: Life Sciences
Tabled: 15 July 2025
Answered: 23 July 2025
Question
Dr Scott Arthur
Labour — Edinburgh South West
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure the biomedical sector has (a) efficient and (b) cost-effective visa routes for attracting world-leading scientists to the UK.
Answer
Seema MalhotraThe Home office’s Immigration White paper, published on 12 May, sets our proposed reforms in a wide range of areas including attracting top scientific talent to the UK, further details of which will be set out in due course.