Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to improve communication and cooperation with regional support groups for displaced overseas healthcare workers, such as the South East ASC IR partnership.

Home Office officials already regularly engage with stakeholders supporting displaced sponsored care workers. This includes the Regional Partnerships, funded by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), in England and extends to officials in Devolved Governments. UKVI use this network to provide an enhanced service offer to displaced workers matched to pre-assessed ethical care providers who wish to sponsor them. We are engaging with DHSC with on their plans to support those workers who have been subject to revocation action following the cessation of funding at the end of the financial year. For any questions on the Regional Partnerships themselves, I would encourage you to write to DHSC.