Question follow-through · 50950
Allied Health Professions and Nurses: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the inclusion of (a) nursing and (b) other allied health professionals on the shortage occupation visa list.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 15 May 2025 · 7 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
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the inclusion of (a) nursing and (b) other allied health professionals on the shortage occupation visa list.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
The Government published the White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the immigration System’ on 12 May 2025. The White Paper set out its intention to introduce a Temporary Shortage List to replace the Immigration Salary List.The list will initially be compris...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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