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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Excerpts

Monday 29th June 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

The Government are very committed to that target.

[Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab)]

My Lords, on the value of migrants to the health service, does the Minister not think it bizarre that the 2012 Immigration Rules now state that unless nurses from other countries who come to work here earn more than £35,000 a year, after six years they will have to go back home? Is that not, as I say, a bizarre change for the Government to make when we are crying out for nurses both from overseas and from this country?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My Lords, nurses, doctors and other health workers are vital to keeping the NHS going and we would not want to do without them.