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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"I am grateful for the right hon. Lady’s intervention; I shall come on to those precise points shortly. I note, however, the public statements she herself made when she was a member of the Government. She criticised the way in which her fellow Ministers were going around making these big …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"The right hon. Lady pre-empts what I am about to say; I shall come on to that precise point.

To be clear, I want the Minister, on behalf of his Department, to give the same commitment that we are asking the Treasury to make, and to outline how his Department …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"I shall come on to him shortly.

A further thing that is said—again, I think this has been touched on—is that not all the people who made these pledges were members of the then Conservative Government. Perhaps that could be said of the right hon. Member for Uxbridge and South …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am very grateful for all the interventions that Members have made today.

Either those Ministers made this pledge to the people in the expectation of delivering on it, in which case they must now show us the money, or they made it in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"I am sure the Minister will be aware that the £10 billion figure for increased funding he has just cited is rejected by the cross-party Select Committee on Health. It is also very well him referring to what he alleges are increases in NHS funding, but the other cuts his …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"To be absolutely clear to the Minister, the ask was that the Chancellor should set out the path for achieving this payment after we have left. I want to ask the Minister two questions. First, given his view that the pledge to make a payment to the NHS was made …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"Given what the Minister is saying, does he believe that it was wrong to go around giving people the impression that all they needed to do was vote to leave the European Union in order for £350 million a week to be dished out to the NHS?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"That is not what I am talking about...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding

"I speak for my constituents above all others whenever I speak on such issues in this House. On that specific point, will the Minister explain why the Government do not simply guarantee the right to stay of EU citizens working in our health service? I understand the demand for the …..."
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Written Question
Department of Health: Migrant Workers
Tuesday 8th November 2016

Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

Answered by David Mowat

As far as possible the latest available information requested about how many citizens of non-United Kingdom European Union countries work in his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies is presented in the table below.

Name of Organisation

Number of citizens of non-UK EU countries working in each organisation

Comments

‘Central’ Department of Health

31 staff are identified as citizens of another EU country (Ireland) but 247 people have not declared nationality,

Nationality is not a mandatory field in the Department’s Business Management System. As at 6 October 2016

Care Quality Commission

90

As at 1 November 2016.

NHS England

87

As at 31 October 2016

NHS Digital

40 have confirmed that their nationality is one of the non-UK EU countries. Of a total of 2,753 employees, 1,462 have confirmed their nationality.

Health Education England

2,589 staff, of which 43 are recorded EU nationals, and 612 have no recorded nationality.

Nationality is not a mandatory field on electronic staff records.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

5 or fewer

Health Research Authority

5 or fewer

As at 31 October 2016

Human Tissue Authority

5 or fewer

Monitor

53 record their nationalities as non-UK EU citizens

Five or fewer employee records do not record nationality. Monitor is now part of NHS Improvement but is still a legal entity.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

This information is not collected by NICE.

As other EU citizens have the same working rights as UK citizens, including not requiring visas, we have not needed to collect and retain this information about employees.

Public Health England

352

As of 1 November 2016

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

105