Written Question
Tuesday 1st July 2025
Asked by:
Lord Boateng (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to reimburse the governments of (1) Nigeria, (2) Ghana, and (3) other Sub-Saharan Africa countries, for the cost of training doctors and clinicians currently working in the NHS.
Answered by Baroness Merron
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We hugely value our health and social care workers from overseas who work tirelessly to provide the best possible care and enhance our health and care workforce with their valuable skills, experience, and expertise.
No assessment has been made of the savings to the taxpayer resulting from the recruitment of doctors and clinicians trained in Nigeria, Ghana, and other Sub-Saharan African countries. There is also no plan to reimburse the Governments of those countries for the cost of training doctors and clinicians currently working in the National Health Service.
Information on the proportion of NHS doctors and clinicians recruited from overseas in the past three years from Nigeria, Ghana, and other Sub-Saharan African countries is not collected centrally, and no assessment has been made of the impact of such recruitment on the healthcare systems of those countries.
Written Question
Tuesday 1st July 2025
Asked by:
Lord Boateng (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the saving to the taxpayer resulting from the recruitment of doctors and clinicians trained in (1) Nigeria, (2) Ghana, and (3) other Sub-Saharan African countries.
Answered by Baroness Merron
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We hugely value our health and social care workers from overseas who work tirelessly to provide the best possible care and enhance our health and care workforce with their valuable skills, experience, and expertise.
No assessment has been made of the savings to the taxpayer resulting from the recruitment of doctors and clinicians trained in Nigeria, Ghana, and other Sub-Saharan African countries. There is also no plan to reimburse the Governments of those countries for the cost of training doctors and clinicians currently working in the National Health Service.
Information on the proportion of NHS doctors and clinicians recruited from overseas in the past three years from Nigeria, Ghana, and other Sub-Saharan African countries is not collected centrally, and no assessment has been made of the impact of such recruitment on the healthcare systems of those countries.
Division Vote (Lords)
30 Jun 2025 - UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago -
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Lord Boateng (Lab) voted No
- in line with the party majority
and in line with the House
One of
140 Labour No votes vs
0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 185 Noes - 205
Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago
"My Lords, I support the Motion in the name of my noble and learned friend Lord Goldsmith and thank him for his distinguished chairmanship of the committee of which I happen to be a member. I also thank the secretariat to that committee for all the hard work they put …..."Lord Boateng - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago
"A treaty signed under duress.
Let us be very clear: these islands are African islands. These islands are inhabited by African people brought there as slaves in the economic interest of Britain and France. So, it ill behoves the noble Lord or any of us to assume a position of …..."Lord Boateng - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago
"I am much obliged to the noble Lord, because we know a great deal about the Chagossians. We know that they have been the victims of abuse and deceit over many years. We know that they have been lied to. We know that they have been consistently mistreated, and, as …..."Lord Boateng - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2025
International Vaccine Programmes: Funding
"My Lords, the success of Gavi, which I have seen for myself as a former ambassador for Gavi in both Ghana and Tanzania, has been based on partnership with local health ministries and with the workforces in those countries. That partnership is strained by the recruitment by our National Health …..."Lord Boateng - View Speech
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Division Vote (Lords)
4 Jun 2025 - Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill -
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Lord Boateng (Lab) voted No
- in line with the party majority
and in line with the House
One of
118 Labour No votes vs
0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 65 Noes - 130
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Strategic Defence Review
"My Lords, thanks are indeed due to my noble friend Lord Robertson and his team for this review, and to the Minister and the Secretary of State for the vigour with which they have addressed the challenge of redressing the balance in the priority we give to the defence of …..."Lord Boateng - View Speech
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Division Vote (Lords)
19 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] -
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Lord Boateng (Lab) voted No
- in line with the party majority
and against the House
One of
114 Labour No votes vs
18 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 289 Noes - 118