PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Professions: Foreign Nationals (16 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of health and care professionals registered with the (a) General Chiropractic Council, (b) General Dental Council, (c) General Medical Council, (d) General Optical Council, (e) General Osteopathic Council, (f) General Pharmaceutical Council, (g) Health and Care Professions Council, (h) Nursing and Midwifery Council and (i) Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland in each of the last five years is from overseas.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The information requested about the proportion of health and care professionals from overseas that are registered with the nine health and care professional regulatory bodies (RBs) in the United Kingdom is not collected or held centrally.

Information provided by the nine RBs on new registrations per annum, in each of the last five years for which data is available, is shown in the attached table. Data is provided on the total number of new registrations for each year and this figure is broken down by whether the applicant trained in the UK or overseas.

Answered by:
Ben Gummer (Conservative)
21 July 2015