Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Janet Daby and Steve Barclay

Thursday 16th May 2019 Commons Chamber

[The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Stephen Barclay)]

DExEU Ministers continue to hold regular discussions with Department of Health and Social Care Ministers.

[Janet Daby]

Nearly 500 people working for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are from the EU. The Royal College of Nursing tells us that 7,000 EU nurses have left the register since the referendum. With the number of trained nurses declining, what will the Government do to ensure that quality of healthcare in my constituency does not suffer if and when the UK leaves the EU?

[Stephen Barclay]

Throughout the period since the—