Should the government increase or decrease the amount of temporary work visas given to high-skilled immigrant workers?

UK companies should have to employ indigneous first

It should be case by case and only if the skill set is not in the UK. Further education to get the right skills in the UK in the first place. Higher immigration for people who work for less money pushes down wages for everyone else

Pay everyone a decent wage and it won't matter where they come from. The UK should be the gold standard by which other countries emulate. We also need to buy ethically but until there is equitable pay across the global chain of production then this will always create imbalance between what we get and what we can have. It should not be a struggle for the basics. Bit by bit affordability of the basics have become more and more a luxury.

Increase high skill like doctors but still provide incentives for British born citizens to work those jobs also, free university education would help motivate more young people to aspire for high skilled jobs

I think we should allow it for doctors and nhs workers as their is so many jobs that need filling - however we need to restart the benefits system and make sure that we are making our own citezens work in the uk - if we make sure that every uk born citizen is working after education, then it would solve this issue anyway

Increase, it should be easier to work in the UK, but companies should not be used to decrease wages for everyone else.

As above - we shouldn’t only be allowing skilled workers into the uk? We need unskilled labour as well

Depends on skill, Criminal record, fluency in the language and culture, or actually willing to learn

Increase because we benefit from different types of experience and education. They should be paid the same as UK cutizens

Yes for roles where needed but monitored, reviewed and not with automatic‘forever’. And which a plan for filling the gap

Free movement for a free country, it's possible to control this with the right people in charge, demented governments should not be in charge of immigration

Should the UK increase or decrease the amount of temporary work visas given to high-skilled immigrant workers based on demand.

Maintain visas for skilled workers in vocations that have national shortages however ensure skilled workers are qualified or experienced in the field they are obtaining a visa foe.

Provide incentives to prepare our citizens for these jobs, but increase to fit needs of the economy until the former plugs all the gaps.

Increase at the moment to solve labour shortages in areas such as farming, but re-join the EU as a longer term solution. Be guided by need, not dog-whistle politics.

Increase in relevant professional areas: doctors, nurses etc ensuring they have great English and good bedside manner

We should encourage companies to take on the Uk university graduates who at the minute are all struggling to find jobs regardless of their degree type. Their education has been paid for, it should be put to use.

Adopt the Australian method of accepting skilled workers for a particular job when there is a shortage

Agree - our economy does rely on businesses employing highly skilled individuals from other areas of the world. Should they be paid less? No! Equally providing hospitalities to immigrants who provide nothing to the countries economy is extremely counter productive and significantly devalues the argument increasing the number of temporary work visas.

What a stupid question. Throw the morons who live outside of the M25 into the ocean and bring more immigrants in. The Brits are the dumbest and most useless part of the UK.

Remain same and increase the training and education of national youth to fulfill the areas of expertise

If we need specific workers with specific qualifications, and we cannot supply them internally, we should outsource with immigrants.

Equal pay to if they were from this country originally, to limit Wage exploitation but to also combat zenophobia

Its bad to use high skilled workers and immigrants and give them low paying jobs in exchange for their high skills. People travel to the UK for a better chance at life therefore they shiould be able to get that opportunity

Yes increase but the uk is full, deport the parasite immigrants and replace them with the skilled ones that want to be in our society

We should stop wasting time with the bureaucracy of temporary visas and just allow more permanent immigration by anyone

The visas should not be temporary, if we benefit from a person’s skills they should benefit from being here

This should be a decrease but in the right way. We should promote an elite level of workforce with free immigration it makes up the backbone of the country.

Temporary Visas are heavily abused and result in slavery-like conditions for workers and should be more heavily regulated and sponsors be inspected more frequently.

Depedent upon labour supply in different sectord

Honestly never thought about it

we should but also add strict rules incase people try to take advantage of this programe

Decrease but make more permanent opportunities for skilled workers to become citizens

increase on the jobs with the most vaccancys

The government should also provode more incentives to prepare our citizens for these jobs. They should increase in areas where there is a labour shortage but they should provide a fair wage to anyone.

Increase where we are short of people

up to them

Decrease, but increase the amount if permanent work visas instead.

Increase if needed and wages should not be lower.

Increase. However, we should also prepare and ensure our own citizens are prepared for these roles.

depends on terrorism level after banning immigration for a while

Do whatever the job market requires. There is also the thought around having more young people living in the country paying taxes = more money to help the people depending on the state helping them i.e. elderly

In order to achieve economic growth then increase but to increase development decrease and improve supply side policies

We should operate a system where an employer has to prove the role can't be filled in country before employing out with.

Too complicated to answer with one sentence

Increase, but maintaining fair wages

No borders, no nations, no deportations

Decrease, but give to those where the sector is in need of labour.

We should try to hire from our own residents first and initiate schemes to support and encourage our own residents into these roles. where there are still not sufficient workers to fill the roles, visas should be offered to residents from other countries

Give Visas to all jobs

Increase in essential areas, but invest in training and employment programs so that UK citizens can fill these jobs too and reduce domestic unemployment

Increase but with a view to education and fill these gaps with home grown talent in future

Increase for skilled workers where there is big lack in that industry

Increase but as long as they have been thoroughly checked out first

Depends on the sector of business

The number issued should be proportional to the number required.

Decrease, work visas only exist for cheap labour, stealing workers from impoverished countries and forcing them to work for less than a UK citizen.

They should keep it the same.

Increase for now, but reform the education system to better produce our own skilled workers for the future

Give all the foreigners the death penalty

Don’t know what this means.

Demand should influence numbers whether for skilled or unskilled workers. All should have a job available at point of entry with a point of departure where appropriate.

Increase but allow the people opportunities to get full time jobs with greater opportunities and don’t exploit them for cheaper pay