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Migrant Workers: Shipping

Asked by Karl TurnerIndependentHome OfficeTabled Answered 15 October 2024UIN 7744

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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 port

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

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.

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