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1144687

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of EU citizens working for the NHS in the West Midlands that have been granted settled status; and what proportion of those EU citizens this represents.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	286676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Information about the number of European Union citizens working for the National Health Service, in the West Midlands or elsewhere, who have been granted settled status is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 09/09/2019 17:08:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1135071

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the impact on the ability of the NHS to recruit experienced staff from the EU of the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and what plans they have to make up any shortfall in numbers of staff.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL16698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need for the National Health Service to be able to recruit effectively from abroad and the Immigration White Paper, <em>The UK’s future skills-based immigration system</em>, published in December 2018, sets out the foundation for a single immigration system, where it is workers’ skills that matter, not where they come from.</p><p>The Government has taken steps to ensure that European Union citizens can continue to come and work in the NHS once we have left the EU. In March 2019, we put in place legislation that ensures the continued recognition of qualifications from EU countries by all professional regulators covering the health and social care sectors. This means that EU citizens will continue to be able to come and practice in the United Kingdom once we have left the EU, even if we leave without a ‘deal’.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan and interim People Plan have both set out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the NHS will have the staff it needs so that nurses and doctors have the time they need to care, working in a supportive culture that allows them to provide the expert compassionate care they are committed to providing. The interim People Plan sets out how part of this will be made up from an expansion of international recruitment of NHS staff.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 09/07/2019 12:38:48 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1125517

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to increase the number of NHS staff recruited from EU member states after Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL15612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need to be able to recruit effectively from abroad and the Immigration White Paper, <em>The UK’s future skills-based immigration system</em>, published in December 2018, sets out the foundation for a single immigration system, where it is workers’ skills that matter, not where they come from. This system will streamline the high-skilled visa route, by removing the Resident Labour Market Test and the Tier 2 Visa Cap. The Home Office is undertaking a programme of engagement to discuss the proposed measures with colleagues across Government and industry, to develop a future immigration system that works for the whole of the United Kingdom.</p><p>The Government wants to support the National Health Service in expanding international recruitment more widely, as this clearly has a role to play to meeting staffing shortages, especially in the short term. Recruitment of doctors and nurses is the responsibility of individual NHS organisations, a number of which do actively recruit from overseas, including from countries in the European Union. However, we also recognise the need to boost our domestic workforce as well. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that, over the next 10 years, the NHS will have the staff it needs so that nurses and doctors are working in a supportive culture that allows them to provide the expert compassionate care they are committed to providing. Details of this will be explored more fully in the forthcoming Interim NHS People Plan.</p><p>The Government has taken steps to ensure that EU citizens can continue to come and work in the NHS once we have left the EU. In March 2019, we put in place legislation that ensures the continued recognition of qualifications from EU countries by all professional regulators covering the health and social care sectors. This means that EU citizens will continue to be able to come and practice in the UK once we have left the EU, even if we leave without a deal.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 22/05/2019 14:54:38 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1125137

registered interest
date	07/05/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the number of EU nationals who have left their jobs at (a) NHS England and (b) Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the last (i) year, (ii) two years and (iii) three years.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	251433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of EU27 leavers from NHS England as at September each year since 2015 and to January 2019, headcount.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Leavers from NHS England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015 - September 2016</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016 - September 2017</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017 - September 2018</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018 - January 2019</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: </em>Electronic Staff Record</p><p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the number of EU27 leavers from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as at September each year since 2015 and to January 2019 (the latest data), headcount.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Time period</p></td><td><p>Leavers from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015 - September 2016</p></td><td><p>253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016 - September 2017</p></td><td><p>341</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017 - September 2018</p></td><td><p>362</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018 - January 2019</p></td><td><p>138</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: </em>National Health Service HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><p>The total number of EU27 nationals leaving each organisation is smaller than the total number of EU27 nationals who joined between September 2015 and September 2018.</p><p>Nationality is self-reported.</p><p>Leavers data from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust may include staff that have left to join other NHS trusts.</p><p>Leavers data includes people leaving active service temporarily, this would include those going on maternity leave or career break.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 13/05/2019 15:59:38 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1123869

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Immigration White Paper, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposal to cap salaries at £30,000 on maintaining adequate levels staff in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	249249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is undertaking a programme of engagement with colleagues across Government and industry to discuss the proposed measures in the Immigration White Paper, including at what level any minimum salary threshold should be set. Officials from the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office are working closely together to engage with the health and care sector to ensure views on the design of the future immigration system are heard.</p><p>However, we also recognise the need to boost our domestic workforce as well. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that, over the next 10 years, the National Health Service will have the staff it needs so that nurses and doctors are working in a supportive culture that allows them to provide the expert compassionate care they are committed to providing. Baroness Dido Harding, Chair of NHS Improvement, working closely with Sir David Behan, Chair of Health Education England, will lead a number of programmes to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. Baroness Harding and Sir David will present these initial recommendations to the Department this spring.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 09/05/2019 16:10:12 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1059229

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to work with (1) EU member states in general, and (2) Spain in particular, to ensure the UK is able to fill staff vacancies in the NHS after Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL13614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the National Health Service is able to recruit as many doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals from abroad, as it needs, once the United Kingdom has left the European Union. Our future immigration system will prioritise high and medium-skilled workers and the Tier 2 visa cap will be abolished. Aside from the salary threshold, which is the subject of ongoing engagement with employers, there will be no cap on numbers and the Government will also be removing the Resident Labour Market Test for skilled workers – this will remove a month from the process of recruiting a migrant. As we bring the EU into a new single immigration system we will make the existing sponsorship system more streamlined.</p><p>Additionally, the Government has introduced legislation that will largely maintain existing arrangements for the recognition of European health and care qualifications. European qualifications that are currently recognised automatically by UK regulators (doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists and pharmacists), will continue to be recognised after the UK leaves the EU. European qualifications that are not accepted automatically will continue to be assessed against the standard of UK qualifications, as is currently the case.</p><p>The future arrangement for the recognition of European health and care qualifications, including Spanish qualifications, is subject to the outcome of negotiations on the UK’s future economic partnership with the EU.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 25/02/2019 13:40:05 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1055938

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 215173, what plans his Department has to work with EU nationals employed by the NHS to ensure that they stay in the UK and feel welcome and encouraged to do so.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	217572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>We have been clear from the beginning of this process that we want European Union nationals currently working in the National Health Service, to stay after we leave the EU. As part of this, we opened the public testing phase of the EU Settlement Scheme on 21 January 2019. Following a successful private testing phase in December 2018, the scheme is now open to all EU nationals in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has undertaken a targeted communications campaign with stakeholders, employers and representative bodies in the health sector to ensure that as many of our EU workforce are aware of the straight forward and user-friendly scheme that allows them to secure their long-term rights to stay and work in the UK after we leave the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to help facilitate as many applications as possible, the Prime Minister announced on 21 January 2019 that, as of 30 March 2019, all applications to the settlement scheme will be free. Additionally, where individuals have applied, or do apply, before that date, and are charged an application fee, then this fee will be refunded.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/02/2019 11:35:53 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1051977

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of NHS staff, per region in England, are citizens of other EU member states; and what assessment they have made of the impact of Brexit on those employees.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Leigh
uin	HL13306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the percentage of HCHS staff that are known to have an EU27 nationality in England and by Health Education England region, as at 31 October 2019, headcount.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Percentage of HCHS staff with an EU27 nationality</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education East Midlands</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education East of England</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education Wessex</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North West London</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education South London</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North Central and East London</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North East</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North West</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education West Midlands</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education South West</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>These figures are based on nationality data held on the Electronic Staff Record. It is self-recorded, so can differ from an individual’s citizenship or immigration status.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the over 63,000 European Union nationals that work in the National Health Service not only stay in the United Kingdom after we leave the EU, but feel welcomed and encouraged to do so. Part of this commitment is mitigating against any potential impact that EU exit might have on EU citizens in the UK. To help achieve this, the Home Office has opened the public testing phase of the EU Settlement Scheme. All EU nationals are eligible to apply to the scheme’s public testing phase. Furthermore, to help facilitate as many applications as possible, the Prime Minister announced on 21 January 2019 that, as of 30 March 2019, all applications to the settlement scheme will be free. Additionally, where individuals have applied, or do apply, before that date, and are charged an application fee, then this fee will be refunded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 13/02/2019 11:58:24 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2509 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Leigh

1047111

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many EEA nationals from countries other than the UK were employed in the NHS in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	211719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the headcount figures for all HCHS staff in England who have specified an European Economic Area (EEA) nationality as at 30 September for each of the years specified.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HCHS staff who have specified an EEA nationality</p></td><td><p>371</p></td><td><p>401</p></td><td><p>432</p></td><td><p>467</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HCHS staff who have specified an EU27 nationality</p></td><td><p>52,808</p></td><td><p>59,796</p></td><td><p>61,974</p></td><td><p>63,484</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Source: National Health Service HCHS quarterly workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 28/01/2019 17:32:14 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1043695

registered interest
date	18/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of nurses and non-clinical staff paid under £30,000 per annum who will be able to continue to work in the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	210018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom’s future immigration system is set out in the Government’s Immigration White Paper, which was published on 19 December 2018. At the time of publication, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department announced that the salary threshold would be the subject of further engagement. The Government is continuing to work with employers, representative bodies and charities in the health and social care sector to help contribute to the discussion on an appropriate threshold.</p><p> </p><p>European Union nationals currently working in the health and social care sectors can apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to secure their long-term status in the UK. The scheme is now open and, further to the Prime Minister’s announcement on 21 January 2019, from 30 March 2019 onwards, EU nationals will not have to pay for their application. Any application made before that date, including those that have already been made, will be reimbursed.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 28/01/2019 17:23:49 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz