Working Holidaymaker's Visa

Mr. Weir
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the future of the Working Holidaymaker’s Visa.

Mr. Byrne
As announced in the Command Paper “A Points-Based System: Making Migration Work for Britain” published in March 2006, the Working Holidaymaker Scheme is one of a number of youth mobility provisions which is to be replaced by a new single generic youth mobility scheme, under tier five of the new points-based system.