Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2017 to Question 112826 on Nurses and Midwives: Registration, when he plans to publish the report on Workforce Information Review.

The Workforce Information Review Group is a standing group of National Health Service human resources and workforce information experts combined with statisticians from NHS Digital, the Department, Health Education England and others, that works to develop and improve data standards over time. This considers the priorities for data improvement and the resources available to make changes on an incremental basis. When changes have been agreed these will be announced by NHS Digital.