Written Question·Home Office·UIN 24584
Visas: Skilled Workers
Tabled: 16 January 2025
Answered: 21 January 2025
Named DayQuestion
Lorraine Beavers
Labour — Blackpool North and Fleetwood
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the minimum salary threshold for the Skilled Worker visa to provide exemptions for (a) the manufacturing sector and (b) other se
Answer
Seema MalhotraThe salary thresholds are in place to ensure that resident workers’ wages should not be undercut and to protect overseas workers from being used as low-cost labour. The thresholds are set at the median levels according to the Office for National Statistic...
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