Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps with her Cabinet Colleagues to encourage international medical graduates to work in the UK, in the context of the pressures on the NHS.

The Home Office have already delivered a range of measures to support the health and care sector and encourage international medical graduates to work in the UK. The Home Office launched the Health & Care visa in 2020, which makes it easier, cheaper, and quicker for health workers – including international medical graduates - to come and stay in the UK to work compared to other immigration routes.

The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care will continue to work together to raise awareness of the Health and Care visa and support the use of the Points Based System.