Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors, (b) dentists, (c) nursing staff, (d) scientists, (e) personnel in professionals allied to medicine, (f) pharmacists, (g) personnel in other registrant professions and (h) total staff were recruited from overseas to work in the NHS in each year since 2005.

The Department does not collect this information. It is the responsibility of local National Health Service organisations to recruit the appropriate staff required to deliver services for the health needs of their local population.