Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the international recruitment regional fund beyond the end of this financial year.

The data requested is not held centrally by the Department of Health and Social Care. On wider immigration issues, the Home Office consultation on Earned Settlement closed in February 2026 and responses are currently being analysed. The Home Office will set out next steps in due course.