Question follow-through · 25088
Health Professions: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that (a) nurses and (b) other healthcare workers are (i) not exploited under the Healthcare Visa scheme and (ii) provided with fair (A) working conditi
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that (a) nurses and (b) other healthcare workers are (i) not exploited under the Healthcare Visa scheme and (ii) provided with fair (A) working conditi
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Code of Practice for International Recruitment of Health and Social Care Personnel prioritises stringent ethical standards for employers and recruiters to follow when recruiting health and social care staff from overseas on the Health and Care Worker ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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