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Migrant Workers

Commons · Question 27635 · Tabled 7 Sep 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 14 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Blake Stephenson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to ensure that organisations holding sponsor licences are recruiting from overseas in response to genuine labour shortages rather than as a primary business model.

Answer

Answered by Jo White, 14 Sep 2026

The assessment of the suitability of a sponsor licence holder that has previously had a licence revoked to sponsor workers in the future is set out in Workers and Temporary Workers - guidance for sponsors part 1: apply for a licence - GOV.UKThe circumstan...