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Migrant Workers: Fees and Charges

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 9 June 2025UIN 55435

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she plans to use Immigration Skills Charge funding to (a) support skills funding for priority sectors and (b) upskill the domestic workforce.

Answered by Janet Daby

As set out in the Immigration White Paper, the government will increase the Immigration Skills Charge for the first time since its introduction, by 32% to bring the Immigration Skills Charge rates in line with inflation. Further details on how skills funding in future years will be allocated will be set out in due course, following the Spending Review on 11 June 2025.

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