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Downing Street may resist demands from Cabinet ministers to ease the visa cap for highly skilled workers from aboard, despite signalling a softer approach for doctors filling posts in the NHS.
The stance could trigger a battle with ministers like Business Secretary Greg Clark and Chancellor Philip Hammond who are sympathetic to industry pleas for more flexibility.
A government source has told the Evening Standard that No 10 is looking carefully at options for ensuring the health service gets all the doctors from abroad that it needs.
However, the source said this was “a specific issue for the NHS” and that No 10 was not considering scrapping the current cap on so-called Tier 2 visas that allow 20,700 skilled people from non-EU countries to enter Britain each year, providing they are filling vacancies that cannot be met with domestic jobseekers.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/pol...to-ease-highly-skilled-visa-cap-a3854556.html
The stance could trigger a battle with ministers like Business Secretary Greg Clark and Chancellor Philip Hammond who are sympathetic to industry pleas for more flexibility.
A government source has told the Evening Standard that No 10 is looking carefully at options for ensuring the health service gets all the doctors from abroad that it needs.
However, the source said this was “a specific issue for the NHS” and that No 10 was not considering scrapping the current cap on so-called Tier 2 visas that allow 20,700 skilled people from non-EU countries to enter Britain each year, providing they are filling vacancies that cannot be met with domestic jobseekers.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/pol...to-ease-highly-skilled-visa-cap-a3854556.html