Question follow-through · 16100
NHS: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on (a) the total cost of recruitment fees for employing overseas workers and (b) the average recruitment cost for each overseas employee incurred by NHS trusts
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on (a) the total cost of recruitment fees for employing overseas workers and (b) the average recruitment cost for each overseas employee incurred by NHS trusts
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
The information requested on the cost of recruitment fees, the average recruitment cost, and the cost of training for National Health Service staff recruited from overseas is not collected centrally.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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