2024 Seasonal Worker Defra Survey Released
8 Jul 2025
This document provides a summary of results from a survey of workers who were issued Seasonal Worker visas and came to work in the UK during 2024. The purpose of the survey is to gain insight into workers’ experience to understand what went well and where improvements may be needed. The survey was conducted between 19 December 2024 and 3 March 2025.
Whilst maintaining comparability with previous surveys as much as possible, the 2024 survey questions incorporated an increased focus on workers’ on-farm experience and finances.
Overall, there were 14,012 responses to the 2024 survey, a 39.4% return rate (similar to the 42.5% response rate in 2023). Almost all survey respondents were from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia (91.5% of all respondents, or 12,825 responses), with Kyrgyzstan having the greatest representation for any single nationality (34.8% of all respondents, 4,879 responses).
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