Brexit: Health Policy

Lord Cunningham of Felling Excerpts
Wednesday 6th December 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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I recognise that there is uncertainty. That is why we have set out our intention of offering a route to settled status for those people working here, and why we want the issues of citizens’ rights to be dealt with as soon as possible in the next phase of talks. The noble Baroness and other noble Lords will be interested to know that, if you compare June 2016 to June 2017, there are more EU workers working in the NHS from one year to the next.