Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will add (a) consultant and (b) non-consultant, non-training and medical staff posts in (i) general medicine, (ii) pathology, (iii) psychiatry, (iv) surgery and (v) anaesthetics to the United Kingdom Shortage Occupation list.

Consultants and non-consultant, non-training, medical staff posts in general medicine and old age psychiatry appear on the current Tier 2 (General) Shortage Occupation List (SOL). All grades in anaesthetics appear on the Scotland specific SOL.

The SOL is based on advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC).