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Visas: Seasonal Workers

Asked by Callum AndersonLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 5 March 2025UIN 33724

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses to establish the annual number of Seasonal Worker visas.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

The Home Office works closely with the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to set the annual quotas for the Seasonal Worker route. This process takes into consideration a range of data and information including previous years’ usages, work force plans and industry intelligence because the Government keeps the annual quota numbers under review, we are unable to provide an estimated projection of what the visa numbers will be over the next five years.

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