Cleverly to announce salary threshold rise as part of new migration package

Home Office figures showed visas granted to foreign health and social care workers more than doubled to 143,990 in the year to September. Photograph: Justin Kase zfivez/Alamy

The home secretary is preparing to announce a package of measures to cut net migration to the UK, including an increase in the salary threshold for overseas workers.

James Cleverly is expected to tell the House of Commons that the minimum salary requirement for a skilled worker from outside the UK will be significantly increased to about £38,000, a Whitehall official has said.