Department of Health: Migrant Workers

(asked on 31st October 2016) - View Source

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
 Portrait
David Mowat
This question was answered on 8th November 2016

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

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