Written questions

Visas: Life Sciences

Commons · Question 68204 · Tabled 15 Jul 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 23 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Scott Arthur

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

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 23 Jul 2025

The 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.