Written question asked by James Clappison (Conservative) on Wednesday, 8 July 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 13 July 2009. It was answered by Phil Woolas (Labour) on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 on behalf of the Home Office.

Foreign Workers

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many (a) highly-skilled migrants and (b) dependants of highly-skilled migrants of each nationality were given leave to enter the UK under (i) the highly-skilled migrants programme and (ii) Tier 1 of the points-based immigration system in each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available;

Answer

The information requested by the hon. Member is summarised in the following table:

	HSMP	Tier 1
Calendar year	Main applicant	Dependant	All	Main applicant	Dependant	All
2007 Q2	2,411	1,161	3,572	0	0	0
2007 Q3	2,637	1,611	4,248	0	0	0
2007 Q4	2,938	1,742	4,680	0	0	0
2008 Q1	3,615	1,883	5,498	0	0	0
2008 Q2	2,659	1,430	4,089	265	163	428
2008 Q3	470	722	1,192	2,630	1,020	3,650
2008 Q4	155	738	893	5,720	2,254	7,974
2009 Q1	98	503	601	7,801	3,468	11,269
2009 Q2	142	578	720	4,812	3,532	8,344
Note:
The data are unpublished and should be treated as provisional.
Source:
CRS 14.7.09

Secondary information