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    Ministers are flying in hundreds of foreign staff to work in the Civil Service, despite a pledge by Sir Keir Starmer to cut down on net migration.

    Whitehall departments have sponsored 400 visas for foreign staff and paid £626,000 in fees to allow them to work in the UK in the last year.

    The highest number of foreign staff on visas were employed by the DWP, which sponsored 316 people in the last year.

    The visas in that department came at a cost of £458,000.

    The Telegraph previously revealed that the DWP was using government credit cards to pay for visa extensions, which currently cost £500 every six months for each employee.

    Several government departments, including the Ministry of Justice and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, declined to reveal how many staff were employed on skilled worker visas because it would take too long to search HR records.

    Tony Diver

    Associate Political Editor - Telegraph

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