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NHS: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) training and (b) otherwise integrating NHS staff recruited from abroad in the last 12 months.

answeredRichard TiceDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
20 Nov 2024
Answer
21 Nov 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) training and (b) otherwise integrating NHS staff recruited from abroad in the last 12 months.

  2. 20 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The information requested on the cost to the public purse for the training and integration of National Health Service staff recruited from abroad is not collected centrally.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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