United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 38951
Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
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22 April 2020
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1 May 2020 · Answer
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Agriculture
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1 May 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that roles in seasonal agricultural work are advertised to people in the UK to limit the need to import foreign workers during the covid-19 outbreak.
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22 April 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that roles in seasonal agricultural work are advertised to people in the UK to limit the need to import foreign workers during the covid-19 outbreak.
Source: Commons
1 May 2020
Answer
The ongoing impacts of the Coronavirus outbreak have meant that there will be a shortfall in the numbers of workers who usually travel to the UK from Europe to work during the harvest season, with the demand for workers peaking from late May through the s...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-04-22/38951
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1189197
- uk · wq-1189197 · source updated 1 May 2020