PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Agriculture: Seasonal Workers (19 December 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will extend the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme to allow the recruitment of seasonal labour for work in the non-edible horticulture sector.

Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)

The Government has committed to continue the Seasonal Workers Pilot and in our election manifesto we set out plans to increase the scheme to 10,000 places following the UK’s exit from the European Union.

Details will be set out in due course.

Answered by:
Kevin Foster (Conservative)
13 January 2020