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Department of Health and Social Care: Migrant Workers

Answer

The Department and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence do not hold this information. Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.

The Health Research Authority, Human Tissue Authority and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority have nationality data available. However, due to low numbers we are able to provide this information due to the risk that individuals may be identified.

The Department’s remaining agencies and non-departmental bodies hold nationality data and this has been included in the following table. Data is accurate as of 30 September. Contextual information to this data should be noted as it has a significant impact on the validity of the data held.

Organisation	Number of employees who are citizens of non-United Kingdom European Union countries	Contextual Information
Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency	126	Not applicable
Public Health England	383	Nationality data is not held for 135 members of staff.
Care Quality Commission	94	Nationality data is not monitored once individuals have been verified at the recruitment stage. As a result, the actual number of EU nationals could differ. This also does not account for EU citizens married to UK nationals, or those who hold dual nationality.
NHS Digital	60	Not applicable
Health Education England	46	Not applicable
NHS Improvement	30	Nationality data is not held for 54.9% of staff.
NHS England	128	Nationality data is not held for 29.1% of staff as this is based on individuals wishing to disclose this information.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

183818

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Migrant workers Department of Health and Social Care

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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