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Written Question
NHS: Migrant Workers
Tuesday 29th November 2022

Asked by: Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat - Orkney and Shetland)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS employers paid in Immigration Skills Charge (a) in 2017-18, (b) in 2018-19, (c) in 2019-20, (d) in 2020-21, (e) in 2021-22 and (f) to date in 2022-23.

Answered by Will Quince

The information requested is not held centrally.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2022
Government Contracts: Randox Laboratories

"I am sure that I am not the only one in the House who is finding this utterly excruciating. The Minister cannot stand at the Dispatch Box and say in one breath that she makes no apology and in the next breath say that the Government are going to learn …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Public Health

"A vaccine passport with a lateral flow test alternative is still a vaccine passport. We have seen the use of vaccine passports in other parts of the country, in Scotland and in Wales. What difference have they made to the transmission of omicron in those parts of the country?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 03 Dec 2021
Health and Social Care

"The question that will be asked by people in those parts of the country where the ambulance service is already in crisis, such as Cornwall and Shropshire, is: how quickly can they get this money? We are three weeks from Christmas and we are already seeing a crippling of the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Randox Covid Contracts

"I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I am prepared to take at face value everything that she says about Randox, but it does then raise in my mind the question of what exact benefit the company had from engaging the services of Owen Paterson. That being the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Randox Covid Contracts

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Randox Covid Contracts

"Just to be quite clear about this, is the Minister saying that her Department does not hold minutes of that conference call? That, from my experience of having been in government, would be a quite remarkable departure from accepted procedure...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Randox Covid Contracts

"The Minister has made it clear that the Government are not going to oppose this motion, so we might reasonably expect it to pass. She said on a number of occasions that she will revert to the House with regard to the question of scope. The motion is very detailed …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Randox Covid Contracts

"I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to take part in what I think has been one of the most remarkable debates I have seen since I became a Member of Parliament in 2001. The hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills), who has just removed …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Randox Covid Contracts

"That is, indeed, an important distinction. I wonder whether the search for these minutes has extended as far as the shredding room. I say to the Minister and the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the hon. Member for Erewash (Maggie Throup), who will wind up the debate, …..."
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