Nurses: Migrant Workers

(asked on 14th October 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Lord Willis of Knaresborough Portrait
Lord Willis of Knaresborough
(Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many European Union and non-European Union nurses were given registered status by the Nursing and Midwifery Council in each of the years 2010–11 to 2014–15.

Answered by
Lord Prior of Brampton Portrait
Lord Prior of Brampton
This question was answered on 22nd October 2015

The information requested about the number of European Union and non-EU nurses registered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in each of the years 2010-11 to 2014-15 is not held centrally.


The NMC is the independent regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom and is responsible for nurse registration. Statistical information provided by the NMC on initial registration of nurses who trained in the EU (excluding the UK) or overseas (non-EU) per annum for the five financial years specified is shown in the following table.


Financial Year (ending 31 March)

Overseas (non-EU)

EU (excluding the UK)

2010-11

1,143

2,521

2011-12

1,152

2,969

2012-13

869

3,298

2013-14

840

5,181

2014-15

665

7,267

Total

4,669

21,236

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