Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many (a) junior doctors, (b) consultants and (c) nurses have left the NHS to work in healthcare services abroad in each of the last five years, and whether he has made an assessment of the consequences for his policies of changes in the levels of staff leaving the NHS workforce to work abroad.

The information requested is not held centrally, and no specific assessment has been made.