Written Question·Home Office·UIN 66074
Visas: Skilled Workers
Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 21 July 2025
Named DayQuestion
Jess Brown-Fuller
Liberal Democrat — Chichester
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of excluding dental therapists from the skilled worker visa scheme on NHS dentistry provision.
Answer
Seema MalhotraOn 12 May, we published our Immigration White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’, outlining our future approach to legal migration routes. The first set of immigration rules giving effect to the policies in the White Paper was published on 1 July, including raising the skills threshold to RQF 6 and we will publish an impact assessment of this change in due course.