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Cabinet Office: VIsas

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 22 December 2025UIN 95786

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many visas a) his Department and b) the Office for National Statistics have sponsored since 4 July 2024.

Answered by Josh Simons

Between 4 July 2024 and 1 December 2025:

  1. The Cabinet Office has sponsored 43 visas1.

1 This has been counted by the date Cabinet Office has issued a Certificate of Sponsorship. It includes fast streamers, existing employees and employees who have moved to other departments within that period as part of a machinery of government.

As part b of the information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority, a response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 1st of December is attached.

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