Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses from non-EEA countries granted Tier 2 visas between 6 April 2011 and 5 April 2012 and employed on salaries below £35,000 per year are employed by each (a) hospital and (b) hospital trust in London.

The Department does not hold this information.

The Home Office estimate that there were 713 visas issued to nurses in 2011/12 to whom the pay threshold and six year cap would apply if they are still resident in the United Kingdom.