Written question asked by Grahame Morris (Labour) on Friday, 20 June 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 25 June 2025 (named day). It was answered by Seema Malhotra (Labour) on Wednesday, 25 June 2025 on behalf of the Home Office.

Frontier Workers: Work Permits

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Frontier Worker Permits were (a) issued and (b) valid in 2024-25.

Answer

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas by visa type, including Frontier Worker Permits, in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of visa applications are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the ‘detailed entry clearance dataset’.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data is from January 2005 up to the end of March 2025.

Information on how many visas were valid in a given period is not currently available from published statistics.

Secondary information