{"value":{"id":1759989,"askingMemberId":5340,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-29T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-02-03T00:00:00","uin":"27431","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made cost benefit analysis of the Health and Care Worker visa.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4253,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-02-06T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Impact Assessments evaluating the impacts of policy changes to the Health and Care Worker route since it was established can be found at: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/impact-assessments-covering-migration-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Impact assessments covering migration policy - GOV.UK</a>. These provide insight into specific economic impacts of the route, addressing matters such as direct and indirect business impacts and the visa fee revenue collected by the Home Office.</p><p>Further analysis of the economic impact of those on the Health and Care Worker visa can be found in Chapter 1 of the independent Migration Advisory Committee’s 2024 Annual Report (<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2024\" target=\"_blank\">Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) annual report, 2024 (accessible) - GOV.UK</a>). The OBR also assesses the potential economic implications of net migration, to which those on the Health and Care Worker visa contribute, as part of their Economic and Fiscal outlook (<a href=\"https://obr.uk/box/net-migration-forecast-and-its-impact-on-the-economy/\" target=\"_blank\">Net migration forecast and its impact on the economy - Office for Budget Responsibility</a>).</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Visas: Care Workers and Health Professions","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1759989","method":"GET"}]}