Surely what the hon. Gentleman says defies logic. If we are going to give visas to nationals of a particular country and we know there is a risk they may overstay, surely we can be more generous and more engaged with that country if we know that those overstayers can …
..."It might help some of these countries if we did not plunder their health professionals, who have trained at the expense of that country, and actually trained our own instead.
..."Asked by: Robert Goodwill (Conservative - Scarborough and Whitby)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to allocate additional funding to the Equitable Life payment victims.
Answered by John Glen
There are no plans to review the funding allocation made to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. Since 2010, we have taken more action than any previous government to resolve this issue by allocating up to £1.5bn, tax free, for payment to affected policyholders.