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Visas: Life Sciences

Asked by Dr Scott ArthurLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 23 July 2025UIN 68204

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure the biomedical sector has (a) efficient and (b) cost-effective visa routes for attracting world-leading scientists to the UK.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

The Home office’s Immigration White paper, published on 12 May, sets our proposed reforms in a wide range of areas including attracting top scientific talent to the UK, further details of which will be set out in due course.

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