Draft Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023 Debate

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Department: Department for Business and Trade

Draft Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Richard Graham Excerpts
Tuesday 28th November 2023

(12 months ago)

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Richard Graham Portrait Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con)
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On the points made by the hon. Member for Croydon Central about helping to fill gaps in the NHS, the care system and so on, will the Minister clarify and perhaps confirm that the real beneficiaries of the recognition of professional qualifications in relation to the European Free Trade Association are likely to be not doctors and nurses, but financial professionals from the UK working in Liechtenstein, other professionals—engineers and so on—working in Norway, and a broad range of those from Iceland working here and vice versa? This instrument is therefore not really related to the needs of the NHS, but is more about other professional qualifications.