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Engineers and Scientists: Visas

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UIN 132362, tabled on 13 March 2018

Question

Paul Blomfield
Labour
Sheffield Central
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 128931, on Engineers and Scientists: Visas, for what reason her Department is no longer able to provide the statistics it provided in the Answer of 21 September 2015 to Question 9220 on that same topic.

Answer

Caroline Nokes
Conservative
Romsey and Southampton North
Commons

Answered on

21 March 2018

Data is no longer provided in the format requested. Published data on sponsorship applications can be found in the immigration statistics release.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employer-sponsorship-restricted-certificate-allocations/allocations-of-restricted-certificates-of-sponsorship

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