Every parliamentary written question tabled by Karl Turner this session, with the full answer and department. Back to the MP page.
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Pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7745 on Migrant Workers: Wind Power, if she will contact employers that utilised the concession to obtain data on the number of workers brought to work in UK waters between 2017 and 2023.
The offshore wind workers immigration rules concession ended on 30 April 2023. There are no plans to collect this data.
If she will take steps to identify the number of non-UK national workers that were brought to work on the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms within UK territorial waters under the Offshore Wind Workers Immigration Rules Concession 2017 before it expired on 30 April 2023.
All those who came to the UK under the concession were stamped at the Border rather than through visa routes and therefore no data was collected.
With reference to the Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 7 October 2024, how many seafarers were sponsored to work on ships (a) in UK waters, (b) on international routes from UK ports and (c) in the offshore wind industry.
All those who came to the UK under the concession were stamped at the Border rather than through visa routes and therefore no data was collected.