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Written question asked by David Davis (Conservative) on Tuesday, 1 May 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 3 May 2007. It was answered by Lord Reid of Cardowan (Labour) on Wednesday, 23 May 2007 on behalf of the Home Office.

Net Migration

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 30 April 2007 to the hon. Member for the City of York, Official Report, column 1226, on net migration, what the exact number of A8 accession country immigrants working in the NHS is; and if he will break this number down by (a) job and (b) nationality.
Answer

Information taken from registration of A8 nationals under the worker registration scheme shows that there were 9,790 registrations for the health and medical sector for the calendar year 2006. We are unable to confirm how many of this number were working in the NHS.The jobs that the A8 workers, including those in the health and medical sector were doing are listed in Annex A of the accession monitoring report published on 27 February 2007 at:"http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/accession_monitoring_report."The nationality of those registering is provided in the following table.

Accession state worker registration scheme— initial approvals 2006 health and medical sector
Number
Czech Rep 558
Estonia 87
Hungary 469
Latvia 147
Lithuania 515
Poland 7,036
Slovakia 965
Slovenia 14
Total 9,790
Note:
The figures have not been rounded to the nearest five as in the published accession monitoring report.

The sectors and occupations used in the worker registration scheme do not conform to the ONS standard industrial and occupational classifications.The figures quoted are not provided under National Statistics protocols and have been derived from local management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
135923; 460 c1331W
Session
2006-07
Related items
Net Migration
Monday, 30 April 2007
Oral answers to questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Migration
Link
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