Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Barclay and Gill Furniss

Thursday 16th May 2019 Commons Chamber

[Gill Furniss (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) (Lab)]

4. What recent assessment the Government have made of the economic effect of the UK leaving the EU customs union.

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

Any assessment will depend on the counterfactuals that it is measured against, and those were considered in the economic analysis that was put out in November.

[Gill Furniss]

Many of my constituents in Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough contact me regularly with their wide-ranging views on Brexit. Will the Secretary of State reassure them that they would be no worse off if we left without a customs union and without the elusive trade deal that the Secretary of State for International Trade has failed to deliver despite stating that it would be the easiest thing in human history to negotiate?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Barclay and Gill Furniss

Tuesday 8th May 2018 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for Health (Stephen Barclay)]

Nursing remains a strong career choice, with more than 22,500 students placed during the 2017 UCAS application cycle. Demand for nursing places continues to outstrip the available training places.

[Gill Furniss]

Figures from the Royal College of Nursing show that applications have fallen by 33% since the withdrawal of bursaries. At the same time, the Government’s Brexit shambles has led to a drastic decline in EU nursing applications. How many years of such decline do we have to see before the Secretary of State and the Minister will intervene?

[Stephen Barclay]

What matters is not the number of rejected applicants, but the increase in places—the number of people actually training to be a nurse. The reality is that 5,000 more nurses will be training each year up to 2020 as a result of the changes.