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Matthew Green
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many foreign nationals have entered Britain through intracompany transfers in each of the last five years; and how many of these were employed in the IT sector. [116063]
Beverley Hughes
I have been asked to reply.The numbers of people who have been issued with work permits under the arrangements for intracompany transfer, and the number of those work permit approvals that relate to the IT sector are as follows:
| Number of intracompany transferees | Number of intracompany transferees in IT sector | |
| 2000 | 26,155 | 8,895 |
| 2001 | 27,438 | 10,608 |
| 2002 | 26,100 | 11,006 |